##mobile_detect##

A simple little Lua library to perform mobile browser detection.

Detection rules were stolen from https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect.

Installation

luarocks install mobile_detect

Dependencies

• Lua >= 5.1 | Luajit >= 2.0.0
• lua-cjson
• Lrexlib-PCRE

Usage

All APIs take a table of HTTP headers as an input parameter.

md = require("mobile_detect")

http_headers = {}
http_headers['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; ja-jp) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5"
assert(md.is_mobile(http_headers))

The following APIs are provided:

• is_mobile
• is_mobile_browser
• is_mobile_os
• is_phone
• is_tablet

Development

Tests can be run using busted:

sudo luarocks install busted
busted test/mobile_detect_test.lua