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Thursday, April 1, 2010

In the working for automatic User Agent Detecting algorithem

I'm thinking about writing a tool that will extract information from User-Agent strings.

In the mean time, here is a quite comprehensive list of tools I've been able to find around the net that can assist me in this task


Tone of links for known User Agent strings

DB:
http://www.useragentstring.com/
http://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml?moz
http://www.icehousedesigns.com/useragents/spiderlist.php
http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/
http://useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

Auto detection tools:
http://nerds.palmdrive.net/useragent/code.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005153/auto-detect-mobile-browser-via-user-agent
http://mdbf.codeplex.com/
http://detectmobilebrowser.com/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2508214/regexp-that-matches-user-agents-of-end-user-browsers-but-not-crawlers-with-90
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/927552/parsing-http-user-agent-string
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/267/
http://browsers.garykeith.com/downloads.asp
http://user-agent-string.info/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpagentparser
http://www.handsetdetection.com/
http://www.tnl.net/ua/OS/Cross-Platform
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005153/auto-detect-mobile-browser-via-user-agent
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/#jQuery.browser.version2
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

INFO:
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/


If you know any other resources that can help please post in comments.
I will update this post as soon as I have some news on the subject.

Thank you,
Maxim.

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