UASparser

A fast User Agent parser library

Dependencies

• JRegex (included in tarball)

Install

Binary downloads are no longer provided. In order to install, you must first build the binary yourself.

Building requires Apache buildr:

$ [sudo] gem install buildr

To build UASparser:

$ git clone https://github.com/chetan/UASparser.git
$ cd UASparser
$ buildr package

Binaries will be placed in target.

Usage

Simply use UASparser or any of its subclasses like so:

UASparser parser = new UASparser("uas.ini");
OnlineUpdater updater = new OnlineUpdater(parser);
UserAgentInfo info = parser.parse("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;
Windows NT 5.1; )");

Changelog

0.6.0 - 2013-10-08

• added support for the [device] and [device_reg] sections

0.5.0 - 2013-05-29

• Handle version API errors (issue #3)
• Defer initial update on startup (don't block)
• Apply jitter after every update

0.4.1 - 2013-05-21

• Added UserAgentInfo#getBrowserVersionInfo() method

• Documented all UserAgentInfo reader methods

0.4 - 2012-11-08

• Added a new, fast, thread-safe MultithreadedUASparser (thanks to Michael Remme)

• New OnlineUpdater class replaces the old OnlineUpdateUASparser and CachingOnlineUpdateUASparser classes which are now deprecated

• OnlineUpdater will fallback to a vendored copy if no cached version exists and update fails

• Minor bugfixes

License

LGPL. See LICENSE file for details.