Get understand the user-agent string of the browser

Let see an example of a user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; TONE-m17) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.89 Mobile Safari/537.36

This is a typical user-agent string whose content is combined of 4 parts

• Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; TONE-m17): Mozilla compatibility and OS detail (android, macOS, iOS, Linux, ...)
• AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko): web dev platform and its detail
• Chrome/76.0.3809.89: browser name and version
• Mobile Safari/537.36: safari browser sniffing, added for historical reason

If you want to know the user's browser name and device information, you might only want to look at the latter (in parenthesis) of the first part (Linux; Android 7.1.1; TONE-m17) and the third part (Chrome/76.0.3809.89) in the above partition.

In the example we are considering, the user is using Chrome version 76.0 in Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)

This service helps you parse the user-agent string automatically.

If you want to find more information about user-agent string, user-agent sniffing might worth a valuable keyword.