uap-python

Official python implementation of the User Agent String Parser project.

Build Status

Installing

Add ua-parser[regex] to your project's dependencies, or run

$ pip install 'ua-parser[regex]'

to install in the current environment.

ua-parser supports CPython 3.9 and newer, recent pypy (supporting 3.10), and GraalPy 24.

Note

The [regex] feature is strongly recommended:

• [re2] is slightly slower and only works with cpython, though it is still a great option then (and is more memory-efficient).
• Pure python (no feature) is significantly slower, especially on non-cpython runtimes, but it is the most memory efficient even with caches.

See builtin resolvers for more explanation of the tradeoffs between the different options.

Quick Start

Retrieve all data on a user-agent string

>>> from ua_parser import parse
>>> ua_string = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.104 Safari/537.36'
>>> parse(ua_string) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE, +ELLIPSIS
Result(user_agent=UserAgent(family='Chrome',
                            major='41',
                            minor='0',
                            patch='2272',
                            patch_minor='104'),
       os=OS(family='Mac OS X',
             major='10',
             minor='9',
             patch='4',
             patch_minor=None),
       device=Device(family='Mac',
                     brand='Apple',
                     model='Mac'),
       string='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS...

Any datum not found in the user agent string is set to None:

>>> parse("")
Result(user_agent=None, os=None, device=None, string='')

Extract only browser data from user-agent string

>>> from ua_parser import parse_user_agent
>>> ua_string = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.104 Safari/537.36'
>>> parse_user_agent(ua_string)
UserAgent(family='Chrome', major='41', minor='0', patch='2272', patch_minor='104')

For specific domains, a match failure just returns None:

>>> parse_user_agent("")

Extract OS information from user-agent string

>>> from ua_parser import parse_os
>>> ua_string = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.104 Safari/537.36'
>>> parse_os(ua_string)
OS(family='Mac OS X', major='10', minor='9', patch='4', patch_minor=None)

Extract device information from user-agent string

>>> from ua_parser import parse_device
>>> ua_string = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.104 Safari/537.36'
>>> parse_device(ua_string)
Device(family='Mac', brand='Apple', model='Mac')

Upgrading

Upgrading from 0.x? See the upgrade guide.