# node-ua-device-type

**Repository Path**: mirrors_soldair/node-ua-device-type

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: node-ua-device-type
- **Description**: user agent based device type sniffer tablet||phone||tv||desktop
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-19
- **Last Updated**: 2026-06-06

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README


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ua-device-type
==============

User agent based device type sniffer tablet||mobile||desktop||tv.
Based almost wholely on the matching code from the npm package express-device by rguerreiro

example
=======

```js

var deviceType = require('ua-device-type');

deviceType('Mozilla/5.0 "
  +"(Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03S) "
  +"AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
  +"Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19') === "tablet"

// true

```

api
===

deviceType(user agent string, [optional options])

return values
-------------
String

- "tablet"
- "phone"
- "tv"
- "desktop"

optional options
----------------

options is an object

- emptyUserAgentDeviceType
  - if no user agent is passed or the user agent is empty this option will be returned.
  - defaults to "desktop"
- unknownUserAgentDeviceType
  - instead of "phone" if unknown the value if this option will be returned
  - defaults to "phone"
- botUserAgentDeviceType
  - instead of "bot" the value of this option will be returned.


thanks
======

Special thanks to rguerreiro author of https://github.com/rguerreiro/express-device
who tracked down the device matching code from https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr

I needed to use this without using express. its a small lib so i bundled it up for all to enjoy.