UA Parser vs Agent

UA Parser

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👮 A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser with support for Laravel, based on Mobiledetect (by jenssegers)

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UA Parser		Agent
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-	Mentions	2
-	Stars	4,440
-	Growth	-
-	Activity	0.0
-	Latest Commit	4 months ago
	Language	PHP
-	License	MIT License

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Send an SMS in Laravel Using Vonage
2 projects | dev.to | 30 Jun 2022

In this particular example, we are using the (jenssegers/agent) package to determine the user's browser. For the purpose of the article, we'll make the assumption that the Agent::browser call returns "Firefox". So, our user should now have received an SMS saying: "You have now registered for My Amazing App using Firefox!"
Internal system analytics recommendation with basic information only
2 projects | /r/laravel | 8 Apr 2021

Also, is there any recommendations to filter a bot request out? I've seen a few packages that does something like " $agent->isRobot();", (jenssegers/agent), but I don't know how good it is and if you have any recommendations I will be grateful.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing UA Parser and Agent you can also consider the following projects:

Device Detector - The Universal Device Detection library will parse any User Agent and detect the browser, operating system, device used (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), brand and model.

frigate - NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

Mobile-Detect - Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). It uses the User-Agent string combined with specific HTTP headers to detect the mobile environment.

Jieba-PHP - "結巴"中文分詞：做最好的 PHP 中文分詞、中文斷詞組件。 / "Jieba" (Chinese for "to stutter") Chinese text segmentation: built to be the best PHP Chinese word segmentation module.

Regex - A sane interface for php's built in preg_* functions

Portable UTF-8 - 🉑 Portable UTF-8 library - performance optimized (unicode) string functions for PHP.

Stringy - A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support

ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter

SQL Formatter - A lightweight php class for formatting sql statements. Handles automatic indentation and syntax highlighting.

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