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Instagram

• Developer: Meta
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2010
• Platforms: Android, iOS
• Type: In-app Browser
• Rendering Engine: Blink (Android), WebKit (iOS)

Overview

Instagram is Meta's photo and video sharing 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

iOS

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 142.0.0.22.109 (iPhone12,5; iOS 14_1; en_US; en-US; scale=3.00; 1242x2688; 214888322) NW/1

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 142.0.0.22.109 (iPhone12,5; iOS 14_1; en_US; en-US; scale=3.00; 1242x2688; 214888322) NW/1';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Instagram", version: "142.0.0.22.109", major: "142", type: "inapp"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.INSTAGRAM));
// true