[helpers] Add new method: UACHParser(), parse client-hints HTTP headers into its JS API equivalent

src/helpers/package.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
     "title": "UAParser.js Helpers",
     "name": "@ua-parser-js/helpers",
-    "version": "0.0.1",
+    "version": "0.0.3",
     "author": "Faisal Salman <f@faisalman.com>",
     "description": "A collection of utility methods for UAParser.js",
     "main": "ua-parser-helpers.js",
     "module": "ua-parser-helpers.mjs",
-    "scripts" : {
+    "scripts": {
         "test": "echo 1"
     },
     "repository": {

src/helpers/readme.md

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ Check whether a user-agent string match with [frozen user-agent pattern](https:/
 
 ### * `unfreezeUA():Promise<string>`
 
-construct new unfreezed user-agent string using real data from client hints
+Construct new unfreezed user-agent string using real data from client hints
+
+### * `UACHParser(headers: object): object`
+
+Parse client hints HTTP headers (sec-ch-ua) into its JS API equivalent
 
 ## Code Example
 
@@ -59,7 +63,69 @@ import { unfreezeUA } from '@ua-parser-js/helpers';
     'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
 */
 
-unfreezeUA();
+unfreezeUA()
-
+    .then(ua => console.log(ua));
 // 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 11.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) New Browser/110.1.2.3 Chromium/110.1.2.3 Safari/537.36'
 ```
+
+```js
+import { UACHParser } from '@ua-parser-js/helpers';
+
+/* 
+    Suppose we're in a server having this client hints data:
+
+    const headers = {
+        'sec-ch-ua' : '"Chromium";v="93", "Google Chrome";v="93", " Not;A Brand";v="99"',
+        'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list' : '"Chromium";v="93.0.1.2", "Google Chrome";v="93.0.1.2", " Not;A Brand";v="99.0.1.2"',
+        'sec-ch-ua-arch' : 'arm',
+        'sec-ch-ua-bitness' : '64',
+        'sec-ch-ua-mobile' : '?1',
+        'sec-ch-ua-model' : 'Pixel 99',
+        'sec-ch-ua-platform' : 'Linux',
+        'sec-ch-ua-platform-version' : '13',
+        'user-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+    };
+*/
+
+const userAgentData = UACHParser(headers);
+
+console.log(userAgentData);
+/*
+    {
+        "architecture": "arm",
+        "bitness": "64",
+        "brands": [
+            {
+                "brand": "Chromium",
+                "version": "93"
+            },
+            {
+                "brand": "Google Chrome",
+                "version": "93"
+            },
+            {
+                "brand": " Not;A Brand",
+                "version": "99"
+            }
+        ],
+        "fullVersionList": [
+            {
+                "brand": "Chromium",
+                "version": "93.0.1.2"
+            },
+            {
+                "brand": "Google Chrome",
+                "version": "93.0.1.2"
+            },
+            {
+                "brand": " Not;A Brand",
+                "version": "99.0.1.2"
+            }
+        ],
+        "mobile": true,
+        "model": "Pixel 99",
+        "platform": "Linux",
+        "platformVersion": "13"
+    }
+*/
+```

src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers.d.ts

@@ -1,2 +1,37 @@
+interface IBrowser {
+    brand: string;
+    version: string;
+}
+
+interface ClientHintsJSLowEntropy {
+    brands: Array<IBrowser>;
+    mobile: boolean;
+    platform: string;
+}
+
+export interface ClientHintsJSHighEntropy extends ClientHintsJSLowEntropy {
+    architecture?: string;
+    bitness?: string;
+    formFactor?: string;
+    fullVersionList?: Array<IBrowser>;
+    model?: string;
+    platformVersion?: string;
+    wow64?: boolean;
+};
+
+export interface ClientHintsHTTPHeaders {
+    'sec-ch-ua-arch'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-bitness'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-form-factor'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-mobile'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-model'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform-version'?: string;
+    'sec-ch-ua-wow64'?: string;
+}
+
 export function isFrozenUA(ua: string): boolean;
 export function unfreezeUA(): Promise<string>;
+export function UACHParser(headers: ClientHintsHTTPHeaders): ClientHintsJSHighEntropy;

src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers.js

@@ -35,61 +35,138 @@
 
 const isFrozenUA = ua => /^Mozilla\/5\.0 \((Windows NT 10\.0; Win64; x64|Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7|X11; Linux x86_64|X11; CrOS x86_64 14541\.0\.0|Fuchsia|Linux; Android 10; K)\) AppleWebKit\/537\.36 \(KHTML, like Gecko\) Chrome\/\d+\.0\.0\.0 (Mobile )?Safari\/537\.36$/.test(ua);
 
-const unfreezeUA = async () => {
+const unfreezeUA = async (ua, ch) => {
-    if (!navigator) {
+    const env = typeof navigator == 'undefined' ? 'node' : 'browser';
-        throw new Error('Currently only support browser environment');
+    if (env == 'node') {
-    } else {
+        if (!ua['user-agent']) {
-        let ua = navigator.userAgent;
+            throw new Error('User-Agent header not found');
-        if (navigator.userAgentData && isFrozenUA(ua)) {        
-            const ch = await navigator.userAgentData.getHighEntropyValues(['architecture', 'bitness', 'fullVersionList', 'model', 'platform', 'platformVersion', 'wow64']);
-            switch (ch.platform) {
-                case 'Windows':
-                    let [major, minor] = ch.platformVersion?.split('.').map(i => parseInt(i, 10));
-                    let osReplacer = (major < 1) ? 
-                                        `$<OS> 6.${minor}` : 
-                                        (major >= 13) ? 
-                                            `$<OS> 11.${minor}` : 
-                                            `$<OS> 10.${minor}`;   
-                    let archReplacer = (ch.architecture == 'arm') ? 
-                                        '; ARM' : 
-                                        (ch.wow64) ? 
-                                            '; WOW64' : 
-                                            (ch.architecture == 'x86' && ch.bitness == '64') ? 
-                                                '; $<ARCH>' : '';
-                    ua = ua.replace(/(?<OS>Windows NT) 10\.0/, osReplacer)
-                            .replace(/; (?<ARCH>Win64; x64)/, archReplacer);
-                    break;
-                case 'Android':
-                    ua = ua.replace(/(?<OS>Android) 10; K/, `$<OS> ${ch.platformVersion}; ${ch.model}`);
-                    break;
-                case 'Linux':
-                case 'Chrome OS':
-                    archReplacer = (ch.architecture == 'arm') ? 
-                                     ((ch.bitness == '64') ? 'arm64' : 'arm') :
-                                        (ch.architecture == 'x86' && ch.bitness == '64') ?
-                                            '$<ARCH>' : 'x86';
-                    
-                    ua = ua.replace(/(?<ARCH>x86_64)/, archReplacer);
-                    break;
-                case 'macOS':
-                    ua = ua.replace(/(?<OS>Mac OS X) 10_15_7/, `$<OS> ${ch.platformVersion.replace(/\./, '_')}`);
-                    break;
-            }
-            let browserReplacer = '';
-            ch.fullVersionList?.forEach((browser) => {
-                if (!/not.a.brand/i.test(browser.brand)) {
-                    browserReplacer += `${browser.brand}/${browser.version} `; 
-                }
-            });
-            if (browserReplacer) {
-                ua = ua.replace(/Chrome\/\d+\.0\.0\.0 /, browserReplacer);
-            }
         }
-        return ua;
+        ch = UACHParser(ua);
+        ua = ua['user-agent'];
+    } else {
+        ua = ua || navigator.userAgent;
+        ch = ch || await navigator.userAgentData?.getHighEntropyValues(['arch', 'bitness', 'fullVersionList', 'model', 'platform', 'platformVersion', 'wow64']);
     }
+    if (isFrozenUA(ua) && ch) {
+        switch (ch.platform) {
+            case 'Windows':
+                let [major, minor] = ch.platformVersion
+                                        .split('.')
+                                        .map(num => parseInt(num, 10));
+                major = (major < 1) ? '6' : (major >= 13) ? '11' : '10';
+                ua = ua .replace(/(?<OS>Windows NT) 10\.0/, `$<OS> ${major}.${minor}`)
+                        .replace(/; (?<ARCH>Win64; x64)/, 
+                            (ch.architecture == 'arm') ? 
+                                '; ARM' : 
+                                (ch.wow64) ? 
+                                    '; WOW64' : 
+                                    (ch.architecture == 'x86' && ch.bitness != '64') ? 
+                                        '' : '; $<ARCH>');
+                break;
+            case 'Android':
+                ua = ua.replace(/(?<OS>Android) 10; K/, `$<OS> ${ch.platformVersion}; ${ch.model}`);
+                break;
+            case 'Linux':
+            case 'Chrome OS':
+                ua = ua.replace(/(?<ARCH>x86_64)/,
+                        (ch.architecture == 'arm') ? 
+                            ((ch.bitness == '64') ? 'arm64' : 'arm') :
+                                (ch.architecture == 'x86' && ch.bitness != '64') ?
+                                    'x86' : '$<ARCH>');
+                break;
+            case 'macOS':
+                ua = ua.replace(/(?<OS>Mac OS X) 10_15_7/, `$<OS> ${ch.platformVersion.replace(/\./, '_')}`);
+                break;
+        }
+        if (ch.fullVersionList) {
+            ua = ua.replace(/Chrome\/\d+\.0\.0\.0 /, 
+                        ch.fullVersionList
+                            .filter(browser => !/not.a.brand/i.test(browser.brand))
+                            .map(browser => `${browser.brand.replace(/^google /i,'')}/${browser.version} `)
+                            .join(''));
+        }
+    }
+    return ua;
+};
+
+const UACHMap = {
+    'sec-ch-ua-arch' : {
+        prop    : 'architecture', 
+        type    : 'sf-string'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-bitness' : {
+        prop    : 'bitness', 
+        type    : 'sf-string'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua' : {
+        prop    : 'brands', 
+        type    : 'sf-list'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-form-factor' : {
+        prop    : 'formFactor', 
+        type    : 'sf-string'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list' : {
+        prop    : 'fullVersionList', 
+        type    : 'sf-list'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-mobile' : {
+        prop    : 'mobile', 
+        type    : 'sf-boolean',
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-model' : {
+        prop    : 'model', 
+        type    : 'sf-string',
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform' : {
+        prop    : 'platform',
+        type    : 'sf-string'
+    }, 
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform-version' : {
+        prop    : 'platformVersion', 
+        type    : 'sf-string'
+    },
+    'sec-ch-ua-wow64' : {
+        prop    : 'wow64',
+        type    : 'sf-boolean'
+    }
+};
+
+const UACHParser = (headers) => {
+    const parse = (str, type) => {
+        if (!str) {
+            return '';
+        }
+        switch (type) {
+            case 'sf-boolean':
+                return /\?1/.test(str);
+            case 'sf-list':
+                return str.replace(/\\?\"/g, '')
+                    .split(', ')
+                    .map(brands => {
+                        const [brand, version] = brands.split(';v=');
+                        return { 
+                            brand : brand, 
+                            version : version
+                        };
+                });
+            case 'sf-string':
+            default:
+                return str.replace(/\\?\"/g, '');
+        }
+    };
+    let ch = {};
+    Object.keys(UACHMap).forEach(field => {
+        if (headers.hasOwnProperty(field)) {
+            const { prop, type } = UACHMap[field];
+            ch[prop] = parse(headers[field], type);
+        }
+    });
+    return ch;
 };
 
 module.exports = { 
     isFrozenUA,
-    unfreezeUA
+    unfreezeUA,
+    UACHParser
 };

test/mocha-test-helpers.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-const { isFrozenUA } = require('@ua-parser-js/helpers');
+const { isFrozenUA, unfreezeUA, UACHParser } = require('@ua-parser-js/helpers');
 const assert = require('assert');
 
-describe('isFrozenUA', () => {
+describe('isFrozenUA()', () => {
     it('Returns whether a user agent is frozen', () => {
 
         const regularWindowsUA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.1234.56 Safari/537.36";
@@ -33,3 +33,63 @@ describe('isFrozenUA', () => {
         assert.strictEqual(isFrozenUA(freezedTabletUA), true);
     });
 });
+
+const headers = {
+    'sec-ch-ua' : '"Chromium";v="93", "Google Chrome";v="93", " Not;A Brand";v="99"',
+    'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list' : '"Chromium";v="93.0.1.2", "Google Chrome";v="93.0.1.2", " Not;A Brand";v="99.0.1.2"',
+    'sec-ch-ua-arch' : 'arm',
+    'sec-ch-ua-bitness' : '64',
+    'sec-ch-ua-mobile' : '?1',
+    'sec-ch-ua-model' : 'Pixel 99',
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform' : 'Linux',
+    'sec-ch-ua-platform-version' : '13',
+    'user-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+};
+
+describe('unfreezeUA()', () => {
+    it('returns an unfreezed user-agent using real data from client hints HTTP headers (sec-ch-ua)', async () => {
+        const unfreezed = await unfreezeUA(headers);
+        assert.strictEqual(unfreezed, 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux arm64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chromium/93.0.1.2 Chrome/93.0.1.2 Safari/537.36');
+    });
+});
+
+describe('UACHParser()', () => {
+    it('parse client hints HTTP headers (sec-ch-ua) into a JavaScript object', () => {
+        assert.deepEqual(UACHParser(headers), {
+            "architecture": "arm",
+            "bitness": "64",
+            "brands": [
+              {
+                "brand": "Chromium",
+                "version": "93"
+              },
+              {
+                "brand": "Google Chrome",
+                "version": "93"
+              },
+              {
+                "brand": " Not;A Brand",
+                "version": "99"
+              }
+            ],
+            "fullVersionList": [
+              {
+                "brand": "Chromium",
+                "version": "93.0.1.2"
+              },
+              {
+                "brand": "Google Chrome",
+                "version": "93.0.1.2"
+              },
+              {
+                "brand": " Not;A Brand",
+                "version": "99.0.1.2"
+              }
+            ],
+            "mobile": true,
+            "model": "Pixel 99",
+            "platform": "Linux",
+            "platformVersion": "13"
+        });
+    });
+});