user-agent-string.info shut down

[pavarnos]

Hi. Have you seen http://user-agent-string.info/ ? Now redirects to paid version at http://udger.com/

[Synchro]

No I'd not seen that. There still appears to be some kind of free offering, but keeping a local copy certainly seems not to be free. Hm. 💩

[jamieburchell]

💩 indeed. I just spotted the uasparser hasn't been updating since 17th December 2014. I use it to detect bots - is there a good (free) alternative?

[Synchro]

I ran into a node.js package that was using a service similar to uasparser recently, might be worth a look through npm to see what's there,

[pavarnos]

I've been using gabrielbull/php-browser which is doing a good job and needs no regular update.

[ThaDafinser]

@Synchro i searched a lot in last time for HTTP API and found 6 different
https://github.com/ThaDafinser/UserAgentParser/tree/master/src/Provider/Http

If this API is still working, please inform us 👍

@pavarnos gabrielbull/php-browser is outdated and replaced by sinergi/php-browser-detector
No regular update is bad, when it comes to local UA parsing, since you dont detect the newest browsers/devices

[Synchro]

Unfortunately the presentation of this project's data is quite heavily tied to the format of the original source, which is now dead, so switching sources would be quite a bit of work - better to use a different lib.

[ThaDafinser]

@Synchro thank you for the information. Then i wont add this API.

so switching sources would be quite a bit of work - better to use a different lib.

This is exactly what https://github.com/ThaDafinser/UserAgentParser/ does.
You can switch between different local and HTTP useragent parser and always get the same result