SYNOPSIS

       use HTTP::BrowserDetect;

       my $ua = HTTP::BrowserDetect->new($user_agent_string);

       # Print general information
       print "Browser: $ua->browser_string\n"
           if $ua->browser_string;
       print "Version: $ua->browser_version$ua->browser_beta\n"
           if $ua->browser_version;
       print "OS: $ua->os_string\n"
           if $ua->os_string;

       # Detect operating system
       if ($ua->windows) {
         if ($ua->winnt) ...
         if ($ua->win95) ...
       }
       print "Mac\n" if $ua->macosx;

       # Detect browser vendor and version
       print "Safari\n" if $ua->safari;
       print "MSIE\n" if $ua->ie;
       print "Mobile\n" if $ua->mobile;
       if ($ua->browser_major(4)) {
       if ($ua->browser_minor() > .5) {
           ...
       }
       }
       if ($ua->browser_version() > 4.5) {
         ...;
       }

DESCRIPTION

   The HTTP::BrowserDetect object does a number of tests on an HTTP user
   agent string. The results of these tests are available via methods of
   the object.

   This module was originally based upon the JavaScript browser detection
   code available at
   http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html.

CONSTRUCTOR AND STARTUP

new()

       HTTP::BrowserDetect->new( $user_agent_string )

   The constructor may be called with a user agent string specified.
   Otherwise, it will use the value specified by $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'},
   which is set by the web server when calling a CGI script.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

Browser Information

browser()

   Returns the browser, as one of the following values:

   chrome, firefox, ie, opera, safari, applecoremedia, blackberry,
   browsex, dalvik, elinks, links, lynx, emacs, epiphany, galeon,
   konqueror, icab, lotusnotes, mosaic, mozilla, netfront, netscape, n3ds,
   dsi, obigo, realplayer, seamonkey, silk, staroffice, ucbrowser, webtv

   If the browser could not be identified (either because unrecognized or
   because it is a robot), returns undef.

browser_string()

   Returns a human formatted version of the browser name. These names are
   subject to change and are meant for display purposes. This may include
   information additional to what's in browser() (e.g. distinguishing
   Firefox from Iceweasel).

   If the user agent could not be identified, or if it was identified as a
   robot instead, returns undef.

Browser Version

   Please note that that the version(), major() and minor() methods have
   been deprecated as of release 1.78 of this module. They should be
   replaced with browser_version(), browser_major(), browser_minor(), and
   browser_beta().

   The reasoning behind this is that version() method will, in the case of
   Safari, return the Safari/XXX numbers even when Version/XXX numbers are
   present in the UserAgent string (i.e. it will return incorrect versions
   for Safari in some cases).

browser_version()

   Returns the browser version (major and minor) as a string. For example,
   for Chrome 36.0.1985.67, this returns "36.0".

browser_major()

   Returns the major part of the version as a string. For example, for
   Chrome 36.0.1985.67, this returns "36".

   Returns undef if no version information can be detected.

browser_minor()

   Returns the minor part of the version as a string. This includes the
   decimal point; for example, for Chrome 36.0.1985.67, this returns ".0".

   Returns undef if no version information can be detected.

browser_beta()

   Returns any part of the version after the major and minor version, as a
   string. For example, for Chrome 36.0.1985.67, this returns ".1985.67".
   The beta part of the string can contain any type of alphanumeric
   characters.

   Returns undef if no version information can be detected. Returns an
   empty string if version information is detected but it contains only a
   major and minor version with nothing following.

Operating System

os()

   Returns one of the following strings, or undef:

     windows, winphone, mac, macosx, linux, android, ios, os2, unix, vms,
     chromeos, firefoxos, ps3, psp, rimtabletos, blackberry, amiga

os_string()

   Returns a human formatted version of the OS name. These names are
   subject to change and are really meant for display purposes. This may
   include information additional to what's in os() (e.g. distinguishing
   various editions of Windows from one another) (although for a way to do
   that that's more suitable for use in program logic, see below under "OS
   related properties").

   Returns undef if no OS information could be detected.

os_version() =head2 os_major() =head2 os_minor() =head2 os_beta()

   Returns version information for the OS, if any could be detected. The
   format is the same as for the browser_version() functions.

Mobile Devices

mobile()

   Returns true if the browser appears to belong to a handheld device.

tablet()

   Returns true if the browser appears to belong to a tablet device.

device()

   Returns the type of mobile / tablet hardware, if it can be detected.

   Currently returns one of: android, audrey, avantgo, blackberry, dsi,
   iopener, ipad, iphone, ipod, kindle, n3ds, palm, ps3, psp, wap, webos,
   winphone.

   Returns undef if this is not a tablet/mobile device or no hardware
   information can be detected.

device_string()

   Returns a human formatted version of the hardware device name. These
   names are subject to change and are really meant for display purposes.
   You should use the device() method in your logic. This may include
   additional information (such as the model of phone if it is
   detectable).

   Returns undef if this is not a portable device or if no device name can
   be detected.

Robots

robot()

   If the user agent appears to be a robot, spider, crawler, or other
   automated Web client, this returns one of the following values:

   lwp, slurp, yahoo, msnmobile, msn, ahrefs, altavista, apache,
   askjeeves, baidu, curl, facebook, getright, googleadsbot,
   googleadsense, googlebotimage, googlebotnews, googlebotvideo,
   googlemobile, google, golib, indy, infoseek, linkexchange, linkchecker,
   lycos, mj12bot, puf, rubylib, scooter, specialarchiver, webcrawler,
   wget, yandexbot, yandeximages, java, unknown

   Returns "unknown" when the user agent is believed to be a robot but is
   not identified as one of the above specific robots.

   Returns undef if the user agent is not a robot or cannot be identified.

   Note that if a robot crafts a user agent designed to impersonate a
   particular browser, we generally set properties appropriate to both the
   actual robot, and the browser it is impersonating. For example,
   googlebot-mobile pretends to be mobile safari so that it will get
   mobile versions of pages. In this case, browser() will return 'safari',
   the properties will generally be set as if for Mobile Safari, the
   'robot' property will be set, and robot() will return 'googlemobile'.

 lib()

   Returns true if the user agent appears to be an HTTP library or tool
   (e.g. LWP, curl, wget, java). Generally libraries are also classified
   as robots, although it is impossible to tell whether they are being
   operated by an automated system or a human.

 robot_string()

   Returns a human formatted version of the robot name. These names are
   subject to change and are meant for display purposes. This may include
   additional information (e.g. robots which return "unknown" from robot()
   generally can be identified in a human-readable fashion by reading
   robot_string() ).

Browser Properties

   Operating systems, devices, browser names, rendering engines, and
   true-or-false methods (e.g. "mobile" and "lib") are all browser
   properties. For example, calling browser_properties() for Mobile Safari
   running on an Android will return this list:

   ('android', 'device', 'mobile', 'mobile_safari', 'safari', 'webkit')

browser_properties()

   Returns all properties for this user agent, as a list. Note that
   because a large number of cases must be considered, this will take
   significantly more time than simply querying the particular methods you
   care about.

   A mostly complete list of properties follows (i.e. each of these
   methods is both a method you can call, and also a property that may be
   in the list returned by browser_properties() ). In addition to this
   list, robot(), lib(), device(), mobile(), and tablet() are all browser
   properties.

OS related properties

   The following methods are available, each returning a true or false
   value. Some methods also test for the operating system version. The
   indentations below show the hierarchy of tests (for example, win2k is
   considered a type of winnt, which is a type of win32)

 windows()

       win16 win3x win31
       win32
           winme win95 win98
           winnt
               win2k winxp win2k3 winvista win7
               win8
                   win8_0 win8_1
       wince
       winphone
           winphone7 winphone7_5 winphone8

 dotnet()

 chromeos()

 firefoxos()

 mac()

   mac68k macppc macosx ios

 os2()

 bb10()

 rimtabletos()

 unix()

     sun sun4 sun5 suni86 irix irix5 irix6 hpux hpux9 hpux10
     aix aix1 aix2 aix3 aix4 linux sco unixware mpras reliant
     dec sinix freebsd bsd

 vms()

 amiga()

 ps3gameos()

 pspgameos()

   It may not be possibile to detect Win98 in Netscape 4.x and earlier. On
   Opera 3.0, the userAgent string includes "Windows 95/NT4" on all Win32,
   so you can't distinguish between Win95 and WinNT.

Browser related properties

   The following methods are available, each returning a true or false
   value. Some methods also test for the browser version, saving you from
   checking the version separately.

 aol aol3 aol4 aol5 aol6

 chrome

 emacs

 firefox

 gecko

 icab

 ie ie3 ie4 ie4up ie5 ie5up ie55 ie55up ie6 ie7 ie8 ie9 ie10 ie11

 ie_compat_mode

   The ie_compat_mode is used to determine if the IE user agent is for the
   compatibility mode view, in which case the real version of IE is higher
   than that detected. The true version of IE can be inferred from the
   version of Trident in the engine_version method.

 konqueror

 lotusnotes

 lynx links elinks

 mobile_safari

 mosaic

 mozilla

 neoplanet neoplanet2

 netfront

 netscape nav2 nav3 nav4 nav4up nav45 nav45up navgold nav6 nav6up

 opera opera3 opera4 opera5 opera6 opera7

 realplayer

   The realplayer method above tests for the presence of either the
   RealPlayer plug-in "(r1 " or the browser "RealPlayer".

 realplayer_browser

   The realplayer_browser method tests for the presence of the RealPlayer
   browser (but returns 0 for the plugin).

 safari

 staroffice

 webtv

   Netscape 6, even though it's called six, in the User-Agent string has
   version number 5. The nav6 and nav6up methods correctly handle this
   quirk. The Firefox test correctly detects the older-named versions of
   the browser (Phoenix, Firebird).

Device related properties

   The following methods are available, each returning a true or false
   value.

 android

 audrey

 avantgo

 blackberry

 dsi

 iopener

 iphone

 ipod

 ipad

 kindle

 n3ds

 obigo

 palm

 webos

 wap

 psp

 ps3

Robot properties

   The following additional methods are available, each returning a true
   or false value. This is by no means a complete list of robots that
   exist on the Web.

 ahrefs

 altavista

 apache

 askjeeves

 baidu

 curl

 facebook

 getright

 golib

 google

 googleadsbot

 googleadsense

 googlemobile

 indy

 infoseek

 java

 linkexchange

 lwp

 lycos

 mj12bot

 msn (same as bing)

 puf

 rubylib

 slurp

 webcrawler

 wget

 yahoo

 yandex

 yandeximages

Engine properties

   The following properties indicate if a particular rendering engine is
   being used.

 webkit

 gecko

 trident

 presto

 khtml

Other methods

user_agent()

   Returns the value of the user agent string.

   Calling this method with a parameter to set the user agent has now been
   removed; please use HTTP::BrowserDetect->new() to pass the user agent
   string.

country()

   Returns the country string as it may be found in the user agent string.
   This will be in the form of an upper case 2 character code. ie: US, DE,
   etc

language()

   Returns the language string as it is found in the user agent string.
   This will be in the form of an upper case 2 character code. ie: EN, DE,
   etc

engine()

   Returns the rendering engine, one of the following:

   gecko, webkit, khtml, trident, ie, presto, netfront

   Note that this returns "webkit" for webkit based browsers (including
   Chrome/Blink). This is a change from previous versions of this library,
   which returned "KHTML" for webkit.

   Returns undef if none of the above rendering engines can be detected.

engine_string()

   Returns a human formatted version of the rendering engine.

   Note that this returns "WebKit" for webkit based browsers (including
   Chrome/Blink). This is a change from previous versions of this library,
   which returned "KHTML" for webkit.

   Returns undef if none of the known rendering engines can be detected.

engine_version() =head2 engine_major() =head2 engine_minor() =head2
engine_beta()

   Returns version information for the rendering engine, if any can be
   detected. The format is the same as for the browser_version()
   functions.

Deprecated methods

device_name()

   Deprecated alternate name for device_string()

version()

   This is probably not what you want. Please use either browser_version()
   or engine_version() instead.

   Returns the version (major and minor) as a string.

   This function returns wrong values for some Safari versions, for
   compatibility with earlier code. browser_version() returns correct
   version numbers for Safari.

major()

   This is probably not what you want. Please use either browser_major()
   or engine_major() instead.

   Returns the integer portion of the browser version as a string.

   This function returns wrong values for some Safari versions, for
   compatibility with earlier code. browser_version() returns correct
   version numbers for Safari.

minor()

   This is probably not what you want. Please use either browser_minor()
   or engine_minor() instead.

   Returns the decimal portion of the browser version as a string.

   This function returns wrong values for some Safari versions, for
   compatibility with earlier code. browser_version() returns correct
   version numbers for Safari.

beta()

   This is probably not what you want. Please use browser_beta() instead.

   Returns the beta version, consisting of any characters after the major
   and minor version number, as a string.

   This function returns wrong values for some Safari versions, for
   compatibility with earlier code. browser_version() returns correct
   version numbers for Safari.

public_version() =head2 public_major() =head2 public_minor() =head2
public_beta()

   Deprecated alternate names for the browser_version() family of
   functions.

gecko_version()

   If a Gecko rendering engine is used (as in Mozilla or Firefox), returns
   the engine version. If no Gecko browser is being used, or the version
   number can't be detected, returns undef.

   This is an old function, preserved for compatibility; please use
   engine_version() in new code.

CREDITS

   Lee Semel, [email protected] (Original Author)

   Peter Walsham (co-maintainer)

   Olaf Alders, olaf at wundercounter.com (co-maintainer)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

   Thanks to the following for their contributions:

   cho45

   Leonardo Herrera

   Denis F. Latypoff

   merlynkline

   Simon Waters

   Toni Cebrin

   Florian Merges

   david.hilton.p

   Steve Purkis

   Andrew McGregor

   Robin Smidsrod

   Richard Noble

   Josh Ritter

   Mike Clarke

   Marc Sebastian Pelzer

   Alexey Surikov

   Maros Kollar

   Jay Rifkin

   Luke Saunders

   Jacob Rask

   Heiko Weber

   Jon Jensen

   Jesse Thompson

   Graham Barr

   Enrico Sorcinelli

   Olivier Bilodeau

   Yoshiki Kurihara

   Paul Findlay

   Uwe Voelker

   Douglas Christopher Wilson

   John Oatis

   Atsushi Kato

   Ronald J. Kimball

   Bill Rhodes

   Thom Blake

   Aran Deltac

   yeahoffline

   David Ihnen

   Hao Wu

   Perlover

TO DO

   POD coverage is not 100%.

SEE ALSO

   "Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings",
   http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm

   HTML::ParseBrowser.


SUPPORT

   You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

       perldoc HTTP::BrowserDetect

   You can also look for information at:

     * GitHub Source Repository

     http://github.com/oalders/http-browserdetect

     * Reporting Issues

     https://github.com/oalders/http-browserdetect/issues

     * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

     http://annocpan.org/dist/HTTP-BrowserDetect

     * CPAN Ratings

     http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTTP-BrowserDetect

     * Search CPAN

     https://metacpan.org/module/HTTP::BrowserDetect

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

   The biggest limitation at this point is the test suite, which really
   needs to have many more UserAgent strings to test against.

CONTRIBUTING

   Patches are certainly welcome, with many thanks for the excellent
   contributions which have already been received. The preferred method of
   patching would be to fork the GitHub repo and then send me a pull
   request, but plain old patch files are also welcome.

   If you're able to add test cases, this will speed up the time to
   release your changes. Just edit t/useragents.json so that the test
   coverage includes any changes you have made. Please contact me if you
   have any questions.

   This distribution uses Dist::Zilla. If you're not familiar with this
   module, please see
   https://github.com/oalders/http-browserdetect/issues/5 for some helpful
   tips to get you started.

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