ua-device-type


ua-device-type
==============

User agent based device type sniffer tablet||mobile||desktop||tv.
Based almost wholely on the matching code from the npm package express-device by rguerreiro

example
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``js

var deviceType = require('ua-device-type');

deviceType('Mozilla/5.0 "
+"(Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03S) "
+"AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+"Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19') === "tablet"

// true

``

api
===

deviceType(user agent string, [optional options])

return values
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String

- "tablet"
- "phone"
- "tv"
- "desktop"

optional options
----------------

options is an object

- emptyUserAgentDeviceType
- if no user agent is passed or the user agent is empty this option will be returned.
- defaults to "desktop"
- unknownUserAgentDeviceType
- instead of "phone" if unknown the value if this option will be returned
- defaults to "phone"
- botUserAgentDeviceType
- instead of "bot" the value of this option will be returned.

thanks
======

Special thanks to rguerreiro author of https://github.com/rguerreiro/express-device
who tracked down the device matching code from https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr

I needed to use this without using express. its a small lib so i bundled it up for all to enjoy.