user-agent-string

Easy way to get User Agent Strings in command line interface.

The User Agent Strings data comes from useragentstring.com

Features

• [x] Custom User Agent Strings format and separator
• [x] Limit the number of User Agent Strings
• [x] User Agent Strings wraps to increase readability
• [x] Save the User Agent Strings to a file
• [x] List the supported browsers to select

Installation

npm install -g user-agent-string

Usage

ua-string is short for User Agent Strings

$ ua-string -h

  Usage: ua-string [options] <browser>


  Commands:

    search|find [options] <keyword>  search and select the browser to get list of User Agent Strings
    list|ls [options] [keyword]      list and select the browser to get list of User Agent Strings

  list of User Agent Strings

  Options:

    -h, --help                   output usage information
    -V, --version                output the version number
    -l, --limit <limit>          limit count of the list
    -f, --format <format>        format of the strings
    -s, --separator <separator>  separators of the strings
    --line                       each string has a newline
    --save <file>                save to file

-l, --limit <limit>

Limit the number of User Agent Strings.

-l 1 limit is 1, -l 10 limit is 10, etc. Examples can be found in the following.

-f, --format <format>

Customize the string format, depending on your needs.

The rule is to use * to replace %s, you can also use %s, e.g. -f '<%s>', -f '{(%s)}', very simple, default format is "*", same as -f '"*"', e.g.

$ ua-string Chrome -l 1 # default
# >>> "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36"

$ ua-string Chrome -l 1 -f '<*>'
# >>> <Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36>

$ ua-string Chrome -l 1 -f '{(*)}'
# >>> {(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36)}

-s, --separator <separator>

Customize the string separator, depending on your needs.

The rule also very simple, default separator is , , e.g.

$ ua-string Dillo -l 5 # default
# >>> "Dillo/2.0", "Dillo/0.8.6-i18n-misc", "Dillo/0.8.6", "Dillo/0.8.5-i18n-misc", "Dillo/0.8.5"

$ ua-string Dillo -l 5 -s ' | '
# >>> "Dillo/2.0" | "Dillo/0.8.6-i18n-misc" | "Dillo/0.8.6" | "Dillo/0.8.5-i18n-misc" | "Dillo/0.8.5"

$ ua-string Dillo -l 5 -s '&'
# >>> "Dillo/2.0"&"Dillo/0.8.6-i18n-misc"&"Dillo/0.8.6"&"Dillo/0.8.5-i18n-misc"&"Dillo/0.8.5"

--line

User Agent Strings wraps to increase readability.

Not use --line:

$ ua-string Dillo -l 3
# >>> "Dillo/2.0", "Dillo/0.8.6-i18n-misc", "Dillo/0.8.6"

Use --line:

$ ua-string Dillo -l 3 --line
# >>> "Dillo/2.0", 
      "Dillo/0.8.6-i18n-misc", 
      "Dillo/0.8.6"

--save <file>

Save the User Agent Strings to a file, e.g.

$ ua-string Chrome -l 5 --save user_agent
.
├── user_agent

Automatically create the directory.

$ ua-string Chrome -l 5 --save ./ua/user_agent
.
├── ua
│   ├── user_agent

With --line can increase content readability.

$ ua-string Chrome -l 5 --line --save ~/user_agent

search | find [options] <search>

Search and select browser to get list of User Agent Strings. e.g.

$ ua-string search ch -l 1 --line

$ ua-string search chrome -l 5 --save user_agent

list | ls [options] [keyword]

List and select browser to get list of User Agent Strings. e.g.

$ ua-string list -l 5

$ ua-string list -l 5 --line

Similar to search|find, e.g.

$ ua-string list ch -l 1 --line

$ ua-string list chrome -l 5 --save user_agent

License

The MIT License