UserAgentParser

User agent parsing is, was and will always be a painful thing.

The target of this package is to make it less painful, by providing an abstract layer for many user agent parsers.

Currently 10 local providers and 6 HTTP providers are available! See the comparison list here

So you can

use multiple providers at the same time with the Chain provider
use local and/or HTTP API providers at the same time
switch between different parsers, without changing your code
compare the result of the different parsers
get always the same result model, regardless of which parser you use currently
be sure that it will work
- we got over 350 unit tests and over 70 integration tests
- plus we test the lowest and highest dependency

Try it out

LIVE test

Compare the detection results of the parsers

Installation

Using composer is currently the only supported way to install this package.

composer require thadafinser/user-agent-parser

Note: to use local providers you need to install additional packages, which are listed inside the composer suggests section

Getting started

After you have installed the package, you can use currently only UserAgentStringCom out of the box. For all other providers, you need to register an API key or install an additional package (listed in the section suggest of composer.json)

use UserAgentParser\Exception\NoResultFoundException;
use UserAgentParser\Provider\Http\UserAgentStringCom;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack;
use GuzzleHttp\Handler\CurlHandler;

$client = new Client([
    'handler' => HandlerStack::create(new CurlHandler()),
]);

$provider = new UserAgentStringCom($client);

try {
    /* @var $result \UserAgentParser\Model\UserAgent */
    $result = $provider->parse('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36');
} catch (NoResultFoundException $ex){
    // nothing found
}

if($result->getBot()->getIsBot() === true) {
  // if one part has no result, it's always set not null
  $result->getBot()->getName();
  $result->getBot()->getType();
} else {
  // if one part has no result, it's always set not null
  $result->getBrowser()->getName();
  $result->getBrowser()->getVersion()->getComplete();

  $result->getRenderingEngine()->getName();
  $result->getRenderingEngine()->getVersion()->getComplete();

  $result->getOperatingSystem()->getName();
  $result->getOperatingSystem()->getVersion()->getComplete();

  $result->getDevice()->getModel();
  $result->getDevice()->getBrand();
  $result->getDevice()->getType();
  $result->getDevice()->getIsMobile();
  $result->getDevice()->getIsTouch();
}

Providers

UserAgentParser comes with local and http providers

See detailed documenation here

local providers

http providers

Name	Type	Browser	Engine	Operating system	Device model	Device brand	Device type	Is mobile	Is bot	Bot name	Bot type	Comment
BrowscapFull	local	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
BrowscapLite	local	x		x			x	x
BrowscapPhp	local	x		x			x	x	x	x
DonatjUAParser	local	x
JenssegersAgent	local	x		x				x	x	x		Based on MobileDetect
PiwikDeviceDetector	local	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
SinergiBrowserDetector	local	x		x	x			x	x
UAParser	local	x		x	x	x			x	x
WhichBrowser	local	x		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Woothee	local	x					x		x	x
Wurfl	local	x		x	x	x	x	x	x
Zsxsoft	local	x		x	x	x
DeviceAtlasCom	http	x	x	x			x					free available
NeutrinoApiCom	http	x		x	x	x	x	x	x	x		25/day free
UdgerCom	http	x	x	x			x		x			500/month free (API key only for one month valid!)
UserAgentApiCom	http	x	x				x		x	x		1000/day free
UserAgentStringCom	http	x		x					x	x	x	free unlimited
WhatIsMyBrowserCom	http	x		x								500/month free

Local providers

Local providers are (most time) faster then HTTP providers and dont require a working internet connection. But you need to update them yourself from time to time, to make sure you detect the latest UAs

BrowscapPhp
DonatjUAParser
PiwikDeviceDetector
SinergiBrowserDetector
UAParser
WhichBrowser
Woothee
Wurfl

HTTP providers (API)

HTTP providers are simple to use, since you need only an API key to get started. But they require (always) a working internet connection.

Http\DeviceAtlasCom
Http\NeutrinoApiCom
Http\UdgerCom
Http\UserAgentApiCom
Http\UserAgentStringCom (no API key required)
Http\WhatIsMyBrowserCom

Comparison matrix

Here is a comparison matrix, with many analyzed UserAgent strings, to help you device which provider fits your needs. Every provider has it's strengh and weakness, so it will depend on your need, which one you should use.

Go to the matrix

Overview

Single provider

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use UserAgentParser\Provider;

$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5';

$provider = new Provider\PiwikDeviceDetector();

/* @var $result \UserAgentParser\Model\UserAgent */
$result = $provider->parse($userAgent);
// optional add all headers, to improve the result further
// $result = $provider->parse($userAgent, getallheaders());

$result->getBrowser()->getName(); // Mobile Safari
$result->getOperatingSystem()->getName(); // iOS
$result->getDevice()->getBrand(); // iPod Touch
$result->getDevice()->getBrand(); // Apple
$result->getDevice()->getType(); // portable media player

$resultArray = $result->toArray();

Chain provider

This is very useful to improve your results. The chain provider starts with the first provider and checks if there is a result, if not it takes the next one and so on. If none of them have a result, it will throw a NoResultException like a single provider.

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use UserAgentParser\Provider;

$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5';

$chain = new Provider\Chain([
    new Provider\PiwikDeviceDetector(),
    new Provider\WhichBrowser(),
    new Provider\UAParser(),
    new Provider\Woothee(),
    new Provider\DonatjUAParser()
]);

/* @var $result \UserAgentParser\Model\UserAgent */
$result = $chain->parse($userAgent);
// optional add all headers, to improve the result further (used currently only by WhichBrowser)
//$result = $chain->parse($userAgent, getallheaders());

$result->getBrowser()->getName(); // Mobile Safari

$result->getOperatingSystem()->getName(); // iOS

$result->getDevice()->getBrand(); // iPod Touch
$result->getDevice()->getBrand(); // Apple
$result->getDevice()->getType(); // portable media player

$resultArray = $result->toArray();

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