gr2m/universal-user-agent

Get a user agent string in both browser and node

stars

111

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JavaScript

primary language

Apr 10, 2026

updated

README

universal-user-agent

Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments

import { getUserAgent } from "universal-user-agent";

const userAgent = getUserAgent();
// userAgent will look like this
// in browser: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0"
// in node: Node.js/v8.9.4 (macOS High Sierra; x64)

License

ISC

Contributors

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35 commits

24 commits

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gr2m/universal-user-agent

Get a user agent string in both browser and node

stars

111

commits

JavaScript

primary language

Apr 10, 2026

updated

README

universal-user-agent

Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments

import { getUserAgent } from "universal-user-agent";

const userAgent = getUserAgent();
// userAgent will look like this
// in browser: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0"
// in node: Node.js/v8.9.4 (macOS High Sierra; x64)

License

ISC

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Contributors

48 commits

35 commits

24 commits

1 commits

Languages

JavaScript

92.4%

TypeScript

7.6%