I have created this site to help web programmers gain more information about the device that is connecting to their web server. There are many other sites similar to this one but I found that they were lacking clear detection between tablets and phones. I have also made it possible to detect when a web crawler is masquerading as a device. You are able to tell it is a robot and what device it is pretending to be.
The site uses a complex automated approach to work out what the device is and stores it's best guess. This best guess is later verfied by human. When the results are returned you can see if it has been verified yet.
How to analyse a user agent string To get the user agent info make a server request to http://useragentdata.net/get-ua-info/ either set the user-agent header to the string you want to test se vb example below or post the useragent string in the form variable "useragent". You can use this service using PHP, Jquery, .net or pretty much any language. I will shortly be adding php and jquery examples to the site and a downloadable strongly typed .net dll that includes caching and cache expiery for the lookups. The response is in JSON format and is self explanatory Currently I still have quite a backlog of entries to verify. At present Windows 10 Edge isn't detected.
VB.Net Example Dim Client As New WebClient Client.Headers.Add("user-agent", UAString) Dim JSON As String = Client.DownloadString("http://useragentdata.net/get-ua-info/")
The Future As it stands at the moment, I am offering this as a free service. I will be charging for it in the near future so that I can cover the running cost of the server hosting, manual verfication and further development. My intention is to keep it to around £1 per month for up to 10000 lookups per month. For this you can run as many sites as you like against your account. By using caching of the results that are returned you should find that most sites will be not use the 10000 lookups in a month. I will sortly be adding the account / register sections. You will need to register to continue using the free service and later the paid version.