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This tutorial illustrates the basic use of the 51Degrees API. It will show you how to create a provider, how to create a dataset and how to obtain a value for the IsMobile property.

Code and Explanation

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

  • Instantiate the 51Degrees device detection provider with these properties 

    									
provider = fiftyone_degrees_mobile_detector_v3_wrapper.Provider(dataFile,
	properties,
	cacheSize,
	poolSize)
  • Produce a match for a single HTTP User-Agent header 

    									
match = provider.getMatch(userAgent)

  • Extract the value of the IsMobile property 

    									
match.getValues('IsMobile')
    This example can be run in any directory, but assumes your settings file contains a valid dataFile location and has the IsMobile property selected.

    Full Source File 
    												
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()
    Full Source File


    • Summary

    In this tutorial you have seen how to use the detector to retrieve the IsMobile property for a pre-defined User-Agent string. The example can easily be modified to retrieve the value of any other property. Premium and Enterprise data files provide considerably more properties such as IsCrawler , PriceBand , HardwareVendor and ScreenInchesWidth . For a full list of properties and the data file versions they exist in please see the Property Dictionary .

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