Package 'uaparserjs'

Title: Parse 'User-Agent' Strings
Description: Despite there being a section in RFC 7231 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3> defining a suggested structure for 'User-Agent' headers this data is notoriously difficult to parse consistently. Tools are provided that will take in user agent strings and return structured R objects. This is a 'V8'-backed package based on the 'ua-parser' project <https://github.com/ua-parser>.
Authors: Bob Rudis [aut, cre], Lindsey Simon [aut] (uap-core), Tobie Langel [aut] (uap-core), Colman Humphrey [ctb]
Maintainer: Bob Rudis <[email protected]>
License: Apache License 2.0 | file LICENSE
Version: 0.3.5
Built: 2024-10-07 02:45:38 UTC
Source: https://gitlab.com/hrbrmstr/uaparserjs

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Parse a vector of user agents into a data frame

Description

Takes in a character vector of user agent strings and returns a data frame classed as tibble. of parsed user agents.

Usage

ua_parse(user_agents, .progress = FALSE)

get_cache()

Arguments

user_agents

a character vector of user agents
.progress

if 'TRUE' will display a progress bar in interactive mode

Value

a data frame classed as tibble with columns for user agent family, major & minor versions plus patch level along with OS family and major & minor versions plus device brand and model.

Note

The regex YAML import date: 2020-03-31

References

<http://www.uaparser.org/>

Examples

ua_parse(paste0("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, ",
                "like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 ",
                "Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2", collapse=""))

Parse 'User-Agent' Strings

Description

Despite there being a section in RFC 7231 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3> defining a suggested structure for 'User-Agent' headers this data is notoriously difficult to parse consistently. Tools are provided that will take in user agent strings and return structured R objects. This is a 'V8'-backed package based on the 'ua-parser' project <https://github.com/ua-parser>.

Author(s)

Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)