How to detect the exact browser django

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I have tried using request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for detecting the browser . But this returns the type of browsers list when i tested on

chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

instead of just returning chrome and similarly on :

edge: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Edge/16.16299

mozilla: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

** I am not able to get the pattern in which it is returning values. Can anyone tell the way by which i could get the browser name

This doesn't really have to do with Django. What you want is a User Agent string database that will map a User Agent string to a reasonable browser family. However, as I'm sure many other web developers will tell you, trying to guess the browser from the UA string is mostly an exercise in vain. — Kal
– Kal, Commented Apr 17, 2018 at 15:44
Maybe you are interested in reading about why the user agent string is such a mess: reddit post why_every_user_agent_string_start_with_mozilla and direct link to the article — Ralf
– Ralf, Commented Apr 17, 2018 at 15:50

py-D · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-17 19:21:13Z

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You can use request object for the same:

request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

also there is a package for that : django-user-agents

answered Apr 17, 2018 at 19:21

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request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] returns list of browsers