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User Agent Parser — Browser, OS and Device Detection

Parse any User-Agent string to detect browser, OS, device type, and engine. Auto-detects your current browser UA on load.

All parsing runs in your browser. Your User-Agent is never sent to any server.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to common questions

What information does a User-Agent string contain?+

A User-Agent string typically contains: browser name and version, rendering engine, operating system and version, device type hints, and sometimes app or bot identifiers.

Why do all browsers include 'Mozilla/5.0' in their UA?+

This is a legacy compatibility artifact from the 1990s when servers gatekept features by detecting Netscape (Mozilla). Other browsers added Mozilla/5.0 to receive full-featured pages.

How do I detect bots and crawlers from User-Agent?+

Common bot indicators: 'bot', 'crawl', 'spider', 'Googlebot', 'Bingbot', 'facebookexternalhit'. This parser highlights known bot signatures.