Automation Action: Get Browser Info

Extract browser name, version and operating system info from a User Agent.

Extracts browser name, version & operating system information from a User Agent string.

Specify a user agent or %variable% in the Get Browser Info For User Agent entry.

You can the select variables to receive:

  • Browser Name
  • Version
  • Operating System
  • Is Mobile (true or false)
  • Is Spider (true or false)

This Action is useful when receiving messages via the API - from web forms, or web requests. It allows you to obtain browser information for the user making the request.

For API received messages the originating user-agent is added to the Message Headers. You can extract this using the Set Variable action with the Extract Header Value operation and the Value set to User-Agent.