^{Browser Types > cli}

cli

Text-based web browsers operated through the command line, used for browsing websites without a graphical interface.

TIP

See the full list of detected values in the CLIs extension.

User-Agent Examples

# curl
curl/7.38.0

# Wget
Wget/1.21.1

# Lynx
Lynx/2.6

# HTTPie
HTTPie/0.9.9

# ELinks
ELinks/0.11.4-3-lite (textmode; Debian; Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686;

# PowerShell
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Microsoft Windows 10.0.15063; en-US) PowerShell/6.0.0

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { CLIs } from 'ua-parser-js/extensions';
import { BrowserType } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const ua = 'curl/7.38.0';
const parser = new UAParser(ua, CLIs);
const browser = parser.getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "curl", version: "7.38.0", major: "7", type: "cli"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserType.CLI));
// true