User Agent Inspector

Parse a User-Agent string to detect browser, operating system, device type and bot status

GET


                    api/v1/inspect-user-agent

Parse a User-Agent string to detect browser, operating system, device type and bot status

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Standard rate limits apply to this endpoint.

Authentication

This endpoint requires authentication via API key. You can use the sandbox mode for testing without registering. See the authentication guide for details.

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`user_agent`	string	Required	The user_agent parameter

Response details for this API endpoint. See the response format guide for the standard response structure.

Example Response

{
    "status": "success",
    "http_code": 200,
    "code": "SUCCESS",
    "message": "User-Agent inspection successful",
    "data": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36",
        "is_bot": false,
        "device": {
            "family": "Other",
            "model": null,
            "brand": null
        },
        "os": {
            "family": "Windows",
            "major": "10",
            "minor": null,
            "patch": null
        },
        "browser": {
            "family": "Chrome",
            "major": "90",
            "minor": "0",
            "patch": "4430"
        },
        "scanned_at": "2025-05-15T12:34:56+00:00"
    }
}

Example Usage

Here's how to use this endpoint in various languages. For more examples, see our code examples page.

cURL

curl -X GET \
    "https://apixies.io/api/v1/inspect-user-agent" \
    -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

JavaScript

fetch("https://apixies.io/api/v1/inspect-user-agent", {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error("Error:", error));

PHP

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://apixies.io/api/v1/inspect-user-agent");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

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Common Use Cases

Analytics and visitor profiling

Parse User-Agent strings from your access logs to understand your audience's browser, OS, and device breakdown without relying on client-side analytics.

Bot detection and filtering

Identify crawlers, scrapers, and automated bots accessing your application. Route bot traffic differently or block known bad actors.

Responsive content serving

Detect mobile vs desktop devices server-side and serve optimized content, images, or layouts before the page even loads.

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