The WhatIsMyBrowser.com API provides a Database search end point, allowing you to search our database for user agents without having to download and import hundreds of millions of records each week.
If you want to automate it, your servers can send requests depending on your requirements whenever you need them, but you can also search the database yourself, using this helpful search form. It also shows you what search options are available to help you integrate your systems with ours.
To get started, sign up and get an API key so that you can send search requests.
| eg. Snow Leopard, Vista, 8.2 | |
| eg. GT-S5660 | |
Software TypeFor the Software Type General & Specific fields, you probably only want to use one of these fields: either search for a very "general" type (eg "bot"), OR use the "specific" field to search for a very particular type of bot (eg "crawler"). |
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Hardware TypeFor the Hardware Type General & Specific fields, you probably only want to use one of these fields: either search for a very "general" type (eg "mobile"), OR use the "specific" field to search for a very particular type of mobile (eg "phone"). |
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| Note: using this field can slow queries down. Please be patient. | |
| Note: using this field can slow queries down. Please be patient. | |
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Here's what your search returned:
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One of the main ideas of this Search Frontend is to help you integrate your backend systems with the search API. You can use this interface to easily and quickly experiment with sending search requests, and once you've got it all figured out, you have the option of building it directly into your own system.
Read the Documentation for the User Agent Search API for detailed information about this end point.
Based on what you selected, this is the search URL.
You can use this in your own systems if you automate your searches.
Here's a sample curl command that will demonstrate this query in action:
The Result format field doesn't change anything about the request that gets sent to the API; the API will always respond with JSON with the structure described by the Integration Guide. The result format controls how the Javascript code in this page that makes this request shows you the response. You can choose to see the raw JSON response, but you can also view the results in an easy to read Table, get the results in CSV format or even just get a plain list of the user agents returned by the search (in that case, you don't get extra "meta data" or "parse" data (how many times each user agent has been seen, the software name or operating system etc). You simply get the user agents.
Be sure to View Source on this page to see the JavaScript which makes the request for you; feel free to copy it and use it in your own systems.
The Search API is a great way to quickly and easily search our database, but sometimes you need a bit more power. You can get easy access to entire database dumps in MySQL, CSV, Plain Text and Parquet formats. Once it's in your system you can run very powerful SQL queries to get precisely what you need.