pybrowscap 1.0

detects browsers capabilities and features like css, java, javascript etc.

pybrowscap is a python port of PHP function get_browser(). It tells what the user browser is capable of. It detects browsers capabilities and features like css, java, javascript etc. It works on top of browscap data file.

Requirements

• python 2.6+

• browscap.csv (browscap data file in csv format)

Instalation

Install via pipy or copy this module into your project or into your PYTHON_PATH. Download latest version of browscap.csv file from http://browsers.garykeith.com/downloads.asp.

Example

from pybrowscap.loader.csv import load_file
browscap = load_file(path_to_browscap_csv)
browser  = browscap.search(user_agent_string)
browser.is_crawler()

Automatic updates

from pybrowscap.loader import Downloader
from pybrowscap.loader.csv import URL
Downloader(URL).get(save_to_filepath)

Tests

Tested on evnironment

• Xubuntu Linux 11.04 natty 64-bit

• python 2.7.1+

• python unitest

• browscap.csv from Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:26:51 -0000

Running tests

To run the test run command:

$ python test.py

Author

char0n (Vladimír Gorej, CodeScale s.r.o.)

email: [e-mail]

web: http://www.codescale.net

Credits

Special thanks to these projects for inspiration:

• http://code.google.com/p/python-browscap/

• http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/267/

References

• http://github.com/char0n/pybrowscap

• http://browsers.garykeith.com/

• http://php.net/get_browser

• http://www.codescale.net/en/community#pybrowscap