UserAgentParser

UserAgentParser is a simple, comprehensive Ruby gem for parsing user agent strings. It uses BrowserScope's parsing patterns.

Supported Rubies

Ruby 3.2
Ruby 3.1
Ruby 3.0
JRuby

Installation

$ gem install user_agent_parser

Example usage

require 'user_agent_parser'
=> true
user_agent = UserAgentParser.parse 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0;)'
=> #<UserAgentParser::UserAgent IE 9.0 (Windows Vista)>
user_agent.to_s
=> "IE 9.0"
user_agent.family
=> "IE"
user_agent.version.to_s
=> "9.0"
user_agent.version.major
=> "9"
user_agent.version.minor
=> "0"
user_agent.family == "IE" && user_agent.version >= "9"
=> true
operating_system = user_agent.os
=> #<UserAgentParser::OperatingSystem Windows Vista>
operating_system.to_s
=> "Windows Vista"

# Device information can also be determined from some devices
user_agent = UserAgentParser.parse "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SAMSUNG SM-G930T Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/5.0 Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Mobile Safari/537.36"
=> #<UserAgentParser::UserAgent Samsung Internet 5.0 (Android 7.0) (Samsung SM-G930T)>
user_agent.device.family
=> "Samsung SM-G930T"
user_agent.device.brand
=> "Samsung"
user_agent.device.model
=> "SM-G930T"

user_agent = UserAgentParser.parse "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/23.1.148956103 Mobile/14D27 Safari/600.1.4"
=> #<UserAgentParser::UserAgent Mobile Safari 10.2.1 (iOS 10.2.1) (iPad)>
irb(main):026:0> user_agent.device.family
=> "iPad"
irb(main):027:0> user_agent.device.brand
=> "Apple"
irb(main):028:0> user_agent.device.model
=> "iPad"


# The parser database will be loaded and parsed on every call to
# UserAgentParser.parse. To avoid this, instantiate your own Parser instance.
parser = UserAgentParser::Parser.new
parser.parse 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0;)'
=> #<UserAgentParser::UserAgent IE 9.0 (Windows Vista)>
parser.parse 'Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; ru) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53'
=> #<UserAgentParser::UserAgent Opera 10.53 (Windows XP)>

In a larger application, you could store a parser in a global to avoid repeat pattern loading:

module MyApplication

  # Instantiate the parser on load as it's quite expensive
  USER_AGENT_PARSER = UserAgentParser::Parser.new

  def self.user_agent_parser
    USER_AGENT_PARSER
  end

end

The pattern database

The ua-parser database is included via a git submodule. To update the database the submodule needs to be updated and the gem re-released (pull requests for this are very welcome!).

You can also specify the path to your own, updated and/or customised regexes.yaml file as a second argument to UserAgentParser.parse:

UserAgentParser.parse(ua_string, patterns_path: '/some/path/to/regexes.yaml')

or when instantiating a UserAgentParser::Parser:

UserAgentParser::Parser.new(patterns_path: '/some/path/to/regexes.yaml').parse(ua_string)

Extending the standard database is possible by providing multiple files in patterns_paths (plural) array argument:

UserAgentParser::Parser.new(patterns_paths: [UserAgentParser::DefaultPatternsPath, '/some/path/to/regexes.yaml'])

Command line tool

The gem incldes a user_agent_parser bin command which will read from standard input, parse each line and print the result, for example:

$ cat > SOME-FILE-WITH-USER-AGENTS.txt
USER_AGENT_1
USER_AGENT_2
...
$ cat SOME-FILE-WITH-USER-AGENTS.txt | user_agent_parser --format '%f %M' | distribution

See user_agent_parser -h for more information.

Contributing

Fork
Hack
rake test
Send a pull request

All accepted pull requests will earn you commit and release rights.

Releasing a new version

Update the version in user_agent_parser.gemspec

git commit user_agent_parser.gemspec with the following message format:

 Version x.x.x

 Changelog:
 * Some new feature
 * Some new bug fix

rake release
Create a new Github release

License

MIT