How to parse an HTTP User-Agent String and Identify Robots in PHP

I’m just going to come out and say it: Nobody wants to deal with parsing HTTP user-agent strings! It’s just not that interesting. Don’t worry, though, we already did it for you. Here it is in API form, ready to go.

Install the API client with this command for Composer.

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_validate_api_client

Now implement this code to call our API function:

<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// $config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKeyPrefix('Apikey', 'Bearer');
$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\UserAgentApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$request = new \Swagger\Client\Model\UserAgentValidateRequest(); // \Swagger\Client\Model\UserAgentValidateRequest | Input parse request
try {
$result = $apiInstance->userAgentParse($request);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling UserAgentApi->userAgentParse: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

All done. Doesn’t get any easier than that. If you want even more ways to save yourself time and headache, this same API client offers a whole bunch of other functions related to validation.