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A django package that allows easy identification of visitor's browser, operating system and device information (mobile phone, tablet or has touch capabilities).

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Django User Agents

A django package that allows easy identification of visitor’s browser, OS and device information, including whether the visitor uses a mobile phone, tablet or a touch capable device. Under the hood, it uses user-agents.

How to Use

  1. Install django-user-agents, you’ll have to make sure that user-agents is installed first:

    pip install pyyaml ua-parser user-agents
    pip install django-user-agents
  2. Configure settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    # other middlewares...
    'django_user_agents.middleware.UserAgentMiddleware',
)

# Cache backend is optional, but recommended to speed up user agent parsing
CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
    }
}
  1. UserAgentMiddleware will add a user_agent attribute to request:

def my_view(request):

    # Let's assume that the visitor uses an iPhone...
    request.user_agent.is_mobile # returns True
    request.user_agent.is_tablet # returns False
    request.user_agent.is_touch_capable # returns True
    request.user_agent.is_pc # returns False
    request.user_agent.is_bot # returns False

    # Accessing user agent's browser attributes
    request.user_agent.browser  # returns Browser(family=u'Mobile Safari', version=(5, 1), version_string='5.1')
    request.user_agent.browser.family  # returns 'Mobile Safari'
    request.user_agent.browser.version  # returns (5, 1)
    request.user_agent.browser.version_string   # returns '5.1'

    # Operating System properties
    request.user_agent.os  # returns OperatingSystem(family=u'iOS', version=(5, 1), version_string='5.1')
    request.user_agent.os.family  # returns 'iOS'
    request.user_agent.os.version  # returns (5, 1)
    request.user_agent.os.version_string  # returns '5.1'

    # Device properties
    request.user_agent.device  # returns Device(family='iPhone')
    request.user_agent.device.family  # returns 'iPhone'

You can find out more about user agent attributes at here.

Running Tests

`which django-admin.py` test django_user_agents --settings=django_user_agents.tests.settings --pythonpath=.

Changelog

0.1.1

  • Fixed a KeyError exception in the case of empty HTTP_USER_AGENT

0.1

  • Initial release

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