Facebook
- Developer: Meta
- Development Status: Active
- Platforms: Android, iOS
- Type: In-app Browser
- Rendering Engine: Blink (Android), WebKit (iOS)
Overview
Facebook is Meta's social networking app with an integrated web browser.
Related Browsers
UAParser.js detects these as separate in-app browsers from Meta apps:
| Browser | Description |
|---|---|
Facebook | The in-app browser used by the Facebook app. |
Instagram | The in-app browser used by the Instagram app. |
User-Agent Examples
Android
sh
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; SM-G900P Build/LRX21T; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.121 Mobile Safari/537.36 [FB_IAB/FB4A;FBAV/35.0.0.48.273;]iOS
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# Facebook in-App Browser for iOS with version
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14E304 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBAV/91.0.0.41.73;FBBV/57050710;FBDV/iPhone8,1;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iOS;FBSV/10.3.1;FBSS/2;FBCR/Telekom.de;FBID/phone;FBLC/de_DE;FBOP/5;FBRV/0])
# Facebook in-App Browser for iOS without version
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBDV/iPhone10,2;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iOS;FBSV/13.3.1;FBSS/3;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/5;FBCR/]Code Example
js
import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';
const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; SM-G900P Build/LRX21T; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.121 Mobile Safari/537.36 [FB_IAB/FB4A;FBAV/35.0.0.48.273;]';
const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();
console.log(browser);
// {name: "Facebook", version: "35.0.0.48.273", major: "35", type: "inapp"}
console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.FACEBOOK));
// true