====== HTTP User-Agent based analytics using the UA-Parser project ======

User-Agent strings are notorious for minor variations that make it hard to use them to categorize browsers, devices, and OS. The UA-Parser Core project maintains a giant Regex file that you can use to extract these elements.

The LUA Script found on the [[https://github.com/trisulnsm/trisul-scripts/tree/master/lua/backend_scripts/ua-parser|scripts page]] demonstrates the following techniques.

  * How to work with YAML files
  * How to use the T.re2 support by Trisul to load a dictionary of RE2 compatible Regexes

==== Links ====


  * [[https://github.com/trisulnsm/trisul-scripts/tree/master/lua/backend_scripts/ua-parser|UA-Parser Trisul script]]
  * The [[https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core|UA-Parser]] project which maintains a library of UA Parsing regexes