How to detect Browser type in Django?

You can extract that information from the request object like so:

request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

There are multiple ways of getting that done.

The easiest way is what @digitaldreamer recommended. That is you can make a meta request for HTTP_USER_AGENT.

request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

But I would also recommend you to take a look at the Django User Agents library.

Install it with pip

pip install pyyaml ua-parser user-agentspip install django-user-agents

And configure settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (    # other middlewares...    'django_user_agents.middleware.UserAgentMiddleware',)INSTALLED_APPS = (    # Other apps...    'django_user_agents',)# Cache backend is optional, but recommended to speed up user agent parsingCACHES = {    'default': {        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',    }}# Name of cache backend to cache user agents. If it not specified default# cache alias will be used. Set to `None` to disable caching.USER_AGENTS_CACHE = 'default'

Usage is pretty simple as well.

A user_agent attribute will now be added to request, which you can use in views.py:

def my_view(request):

# Let's assume that the visitor uses an iPhone...request.user_agent.is_mobile # returns Truerequest.user_agent.is_tablet # returns Falserequest.user_agent.is_touch_capable # returns Truerequest.user_agent.is_pc # returns Falserequest.user_agent.is_bot # returns False# Accessing user agent's browser attributesrequest.user_agent.browser  # returns Browser(family=u'Mobile Safari', version=(5, 1), version_string='5.1')request.user_agent.browser.family  # returns 'Mobile Safari'request.user_agent.browser.version  # returns (5, 1)request.user_agent.browser.version_string   # returns '5.1'# Operating System propertiesrequest.user_agent.os  # returns OperatingSystem(family=u'iOS', version=(5, 1), version_string='5.1')request.user_agent.os.family  # returns 'iOS'request.user_agent.os.version  # returns (5, 1)request.user_agent.os.version_string  # returns '5.1'# Device propertiesrequest.user_agent.device  # returns Device(family='iPhone')request.user_agent.device.family  # returns 'iPhone'

You can look into the 'user agent string' and parse out the values.

Here's the relevant docs, specifically on (HTTP_USER_AGENT):

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.META