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Detect the operating system (os), browser and browser version without relying on depreciated ways.
const navigatorErrorMessage = 'Could not find `userAgent` or `userAgentData` window.navigator properties to set `os`, `browser` and `version`'
const removeExcessMozillaAndVersion = /^mozilla\/\d\.\d\W/
const browserPattern = /(\w+)\/(\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:\.\d+)?)/g
const engineAndVersionPattern = /^(ver|cri|gec)/
const userAgentData = window.navigator.userAgentData
const userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent
const unknown = 'Unknown'
const empty = ''
const brandList = ['chrome', 'opera', 'safari', 'edge', 'firefox']
const mobiles = {
iphone: /iphone/,
ipad: /ipad|macintosh/,
android: /android/
}
const desktops = {
windows: /win/,
mac: /macintosh/,
linux: /linux/
}
const detectPlatform = () => {
if (userAgent) {
const ua = userAgent.toLowerCase().replace(removeExcessMozillaAndVersion, empty)
// Determine the operating system.
const mobileOS = Object.keys(mobiles).find(os => mobiles[os].test(ua) && window.navigator.maxTouchPoints >= 1)
const desktopOS = Object.keys(desktops).find(os => desktops[os].test(ua))
const os = mobileOS || desktopOS
// Extract browser and version information.
const browserTest = ua.match(browserPattern)
const browserOffset = browserTest && (browserTest.length > 2 && !(engineAndVersionPattern.test(browserTest[1])) ? 1 : 0)
const browserResult = browserTest && browserTest[browserTest.length - 1 - (browserOffset || 0)].split('/')
const browser = browserResult && browserResult[0]
const version = browserResult && browserResult[1]
return { os, browser, version }
} else if (userAgentData) {
const os = userAgentData.platform.toLowerCase()
let platformData
// Extract platform brand and version information.
for (const agentBrand of userAgentData.brands) {
const agentBrandEntry = agentBrand.brand.toLowerCase()
const foundBrand = brandList.find(brand => { //eslint-disable-line
if (agentBrandEntry.includes(brand)) {
return brand
}
})
if (foundBrand) {
platformData = { browser: foundBrand, version: agentBrand.version }
break
}
}
const brandVersionData = platformData || { browser: unknown, version: unknown }
return { os, ...brandVersionData }
} else {
// Log error message if there's a problem.
console
.error(navigatorErrorMessage)
return {
// Ignore the VSCode strikethough. Disable linting line if necessary. This is just a fallback
os: navigator.platform || unknown,
browser: unknown,
version: unknown
}
}
}
export default detectPlatform
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NatachaH commented Apr 4, 2024

The Safari version is wrong for me.

My Safari version : 17.4.1 (19618.1.15.11.14)
The script return: 605.1.15

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Thanks,
I've moved this script to a github repository. I'll look into it sometime in the week.
I may need your help testing for that particular version son.

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For anyone encountering problems please raise issues on https://github.com/julienetie/detect-browser
PRs are welcomed.

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