fex-team/ua-device

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1461 stars · 167 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ua-device is a JavaScript library by Baidu's FEX team that parses User-Agent strings to extract browser, engine, OS, and hardware device information. It specializes in accurately identifying Chinese mobile device manufacturers and models where generic UA parsers fail.

Use cases

• parse user-agent strings to detect device manufacturer and model
• identify mobile device brands from UA in Chinese web traffic
• get browser, engine, and OS info from user agents
• aggregate device stats without splitting same phone across UA variants
• detect device type (mobile/pc) server-side in Node.js

When to choose

• your traffic includes many Chinese Android devices with non-standard UAs
• you need device manufacturer/model recognition rates higher than generic UA parsers
• you want a lightweight Node.js/browser library for UA parsing

When to avoid

• you need actively developed features or frequent updates
• your users are mostly outside China and standard parsers like ua-parser-js suffice
• you need TypeScript types or modern ESM support

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser nlp web-development developer-tools analytics browser user-agent ua-parser device-detection chinese-mobile-devices nodejs javascript

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