This is a C library for using the Browscap user agent database,
which is a descendant of PHP's get_browser() function and probably of the IIS Browser Capabilities component before that.
Or it will be someday. Right now it's just an unoptimized prototype.
Requires the iniparser library,
strlcpy and strlcat
(available from libbsd on Linux)
and fnmatch with the nonstandard FNM_CASEFOLD flag (available on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and glibc).
Assuming you've installed iniparser through Homebrew, you can build the library
and its demo program with debug info like this on Mac OS X:
clang -std=c11 \
-Wall -g \
-I$(brew --prefix)/include \
-L$(brew --prefix)/lib \
-liniparser \
-dynamiclib \
browscap.c \
-o libbrowscap.dylib
clang -std=c11 \
-Wall -g \
-L. \
-lbrowscap \
browscap_demo.c \
-o browscap_demoRequires one of Browscap's php_browscap.ini files for data.
It supports regular, lite, and full versions, although it's slow with anything but lite.
The demo program takes a data file path followed by user agent strings on the command line:
./browscap_demo lite_php_browscap.ini \
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; SM-T337T Build/LMY47X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.89 Safari/537.36" \
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36"Prints each user agent string followed by its properties:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; SM-T337T Build/LMY47X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.89 Safari/537.36
Comment = Chrome 50.0
Browser = Chrome
Version = 50.0
Platform = Android
isMobileDevice = true
isTablet = false
Device_Type = Mobile Phone
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Comment = Chrome 52.0
Browser = Chrome
Version = 52.0
Platform = MacOSX
isMobileDevice = false
isTablet = false
Device_Type = Desktop