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An always up-to-date list of the top 100 HTTP user-agent's most used over the Internet.

Download: All / Desktop / Mobile

There are some scenarios where you need to perform browser-like requests, meaning you need to use an HTTP user-agent as much accurate as possible with the real world™️.

You can find many list of browser user agents on the Internet, but they are outdated or quickly unmaintained.

This list is created collecting user agent from microlink.io products, that receives +300M requests every month.

$ npm install top-user-agents --save

const uniqueRandomArray = require('unique-random-array')
const userAgents = require('top-user-agents')

const randomUserAgent = uniqueRandomArray(userAgents)

console.log(randomUserAgent())
// => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36'

You can also require('top-user-agents/mobile') or require('top-user-agents/desktop') to get the list based on the device.

The information exposed to the user-agent only relies on coarse details.

In practice, anyone can put whatever they want in the user-agent string, and send it to the web server.

Because that, The user-agent cannot be sufficient condition to identify or reproduce the original request.

• https-tls – Setup TLS details according to user-agent.
• top-crawler-agents – A list of common crawler user agents useful for retrieving metadata from links.
• @microlink/ua – A simple redis primitives to incr() and top() user agents.

top-user-agents © microlink.io, released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Kiko Beats with help from contributors.

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