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Mobile browser detection middleware

Author:
pavl
Posted:
April 29, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
Score:
3 (after 3 ratings)

This middleware adds a "is_mobile" (boolean) to the request object if the user's browser is a mobile browser (iPhone, Nokia, etc).

Example of use inside a view: request.is_mobile

Example of use inside a template: You must activate the template processor "django.core.context_processors.request" in your settings. (see TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS at djangoproject.com) {{ request.is_mobile }} 

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import re


class MobileDetectionMiddleware(object):
    """
    Useful middleware to detect if the user is
    on a mobile device.
    """

    def process_request(self, request):
        is_mobile = False;

        if request.META.has_key('HTTP_USER_AGENT'):
            user_agent = request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

            # Test common mobile values.
            pattern = "(up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|windows ce|pda|mobile|mini|palm|netfront)"
            prog = re.compile(pattern, re.IGNORECASE)
            match = prog.search(user_agent)

            if match:
                is_mobile = True;
            else:
                # Nokia like test for WAP browsers.
                # http://www.developershome.com/wap/xhtmlmp/xhtml_mp_tutorial.asp?page=mimeTypesFileExtension

                if request.META.has_key('HTTP_ACCEPT'):
                    http_accept = request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT']

                    pattern = "application/vnd\.wap\.xhtml\+xml"
                    prog = re.compile(pattern, re.IGNORECASE)

                    match = prog.search(http_accept)

                    if match:
                        is_mobile = True

            if not is_mobile:
                # Now we test the user_agent from a big list.
                user_agents_test = ("w3c ", "acs-", "alav", "alca", "amoi", "audi",
                                    "avan", "benq", "bird", "blac", "blaz", "brew",
                                    "cell", "cldc", "cmd-", "dang", "doco", "eric",
                                    "hipt", "inno", "ipaq", "java", "jigs", "kddi",
                                    "keji", "leno", "lg-c", "lg-d", "lg-g", "lge-",
                                    "maui", "maxo", "midp", "mits", "mmef", "mobi",
                                    "mot-", "moto", "mwbp", "nec-", "newt", "noki",
                                    "xda",  "palm", "pana", "pant", "phil", "play",
                                    "port", "prox", "qwap", "sage", "sams", "sany",
                                    "sch-", "sec-", "send", "seri", "sgh-", "shar",
                                    "sie-", "siem", "smal", "smar", "sony", "sph-",
                                    "symb", "t-mo", "teli", "tim-", "tosh", "tsm-",
                                    "upg1", "upsi", "vk-v", "voda", "wap-", "wapa",
                                    "wapi", "wapp", "wapr", "webc", "winw", "winw",
                                    "xda-",)

                test = user_agent[0:4].lower()
                if test in user_agents_test:
                    is_mobile = True

        request.is_mobile = is_mobile

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Comments

rukeba (on May 5, 2010):

Thanks for useful snippet!

But desktop opera recognized as mobile.<br /> I removed 'oper' string from user_agents_test list and everything was ok.

Thanks!

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rukeba (on May 6, 2010):

Fix: last line should be shifted by one tab back!!! Otherwise is_mobile is unknown for requests without HTTP_USER_AGENT

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pavl (on May 14, 2010):

@rukeba: thank you. I just fixed it. :)

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