These pages show you how to set up and use the 51Degrees device detection API. For more information on how device detection works and can benefit you, please visit our Device Detection Page . If you’re using our cloud based device detection, you should refer to the Cloud API Documentation pages . All source code, and the free Lite data, is licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 2 .

Getting started example of using 51Degrees device detection. The example shows how to:

1. Import settings from the 51Degrees settings file

   										
   dataFile = settings.V3_WRAPPER_DATABASE
   properties = settings.PROPERTIES
   cacheSize = settings.CACHE_SIZE
   poolSize = settings.POOL_SIZE
   
   										

2. Instantiate the 51Degrees device detection provider with these properties

   										
   provider = fiftyone_degrees_mobile_detector_v3_wrapper.Provider(dataFile,
   	properties,
   	cacheSize,
   	poolSize)
   
   										

3. Produce a match for a single HTTP User-Agent header

   										
   match = provider.getMatch(userAgent)
   
   										

4. Extract the value of the IsMobile property

   										
   match.getValues('IsMobile')
   
   										

										
from FiftyOneDegrees import fiftyone_degrees_mobile_detector_v3_wrapper
from fiftyone_degrees.mobile_detector.conf import settings
import sys

'''
Imports settings from the settings file. The Default settings file, and
details on how to change it can be output by running the command
<p><pre class="prettyprint lang-py">
51degrees-mobile-detector settings
</p></pre>
'''
dataFile = settings.V3_WRAPPER_DATABASE
properties = settings.PROPERTIES
cacheSize = settings.CACHE_SIZE
poolSize = settings.POOL_SIZE

'''
Initialises the device detection provider with settings from the settings
file. By default this will use the included Lite data file For more info
see:
<a href="https://51degrees.com/compare-data-options">compare data options
</a>
'''
provider = fiftyone_degrees_mobile_detector_v3_wrapper.Provider(dataFile,
    properties,
    cacheSize,
    poolSize)

# User-Agent string of an iPhone mobile device.
mobileUserAgent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1 like Mac OS X) "
"AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) 'Version/7.0 Mobile/11D167 "
"Safari/9537.53")

# User-Agent string of Firefox Web browser version 41 on desktop.
desktopUserAgent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:41.0) "
"Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0")

# User-Agent string of a MediaHub device.
mediaHubUserAgent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; X7 Quad Core "
"Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 "
"Chrome/30.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")

def main():
    sys.stdout.write('Starting Getting Started Example.\n')

# Carries out a match with a mobile User-Agent.
    sys.stdout.write('\nMobile User-Agent: %s\n' % mobileUserAgent)
    match = provider.getMatch(mobileUserAgent)
    sys.stdout.write('   IsMobile: %s\n' % match.getValues('IsMobile'))

# Carries out a match with a desktop User-Agent.
    sys.stdout.write('\nDesktop User-Agent: %s\n' % desktopUserAgent)
    match = provider.getMatch(desktopUserAgent)
    sys.stdout.write('   IsMobile: %s\n' % match.getValues('IsMobile'))

# Carries out a match with a MediaHub User-Agent.
    sys.stdout.write('\nMedia Hub User-Agent: %s\n' % mediaHubUserAgent)
    match = provider.getMatch(mediaHubUserAgent)
    sys.stdout.write('   IsMobile: %s\n' % match.getValues('IsMobile'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()


										

For more examples see the tutorial pages.

51Degrees device detection implementation does not rely on regular expressions, instead our algorithm looks at character positions in the HTTP User-Agent string and picks a set of signatures that represents the closest match. Then a set of four profiles (one for each of the following components: hardware, software, browser and crawler) is derived from those signatures. Properties and the corresponding values are then derived from those profiles. For more information and examples please see the How Device Detection Works  page.

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• Python 2.7+
• g++ 4.8.4+
• SWIG  2.0+
• python-setuptools
• python-dev
• python-pip