How to find the operating system version using JavaScript?

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How can I find the OS name and OS version using JavaScript?

Ludwig · Answer 1 · 2020-09-17T08:55:24.307

I started to write a Script to read OS and browser version that can be tested on Fiddle. Feel free to use and extend.
Breaking Change:
Since September 2020 the new Edge gets detected. So 'Microsoft Edge' is the new version based on Chromium and the old Edge is now detected as 'Microsoft Legacy Edge'!

/**
 * JavaScript Client Detection
 * (C) viazenetti GmbH (Christian Ludwig)
 */
(function (window) {
    {
        var unknown = '-';

        // screen
        var screenSize = '';
        if (screen.width) {
            width = (screen.width) ? screen.width : '';
            height = (screen.height) ? screen.height : '';
            screenSize += '' + width + " x " + height;
        }

        // browser
        var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
        var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
        var browser = navigator.appName;
        var version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
        var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
        var nameOffset, verOffset, ix;

        // Opera
        if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Opera')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Opera';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);
            if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
            }
        }
        // Opera Next
        if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('OPR')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Opera';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 4);
        }
        // Legacy Edge
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Edge')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Microsoft Legacy Edge';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
        } 
        // Edge (Chromium)
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Edg')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Microsoft Edge';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 4);
        }
        // MSIE
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('MSIE')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
        }
        // Chrome
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Chrome')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Chrome';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
        }
        // Safari
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Safari')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Safari';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
            if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
            }
        }
        // Firefox
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Firefox')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Firefox';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
        }
        // MSIE 11+
        else if (nAgt.indexOf('Trident/') != -1) {
            browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
            version = nAgt.substring(nAgt.indexOf('rv:') + 3);
        }
        // Other browsers
        else if ((nameOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1) < (verOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf('/'))) {
            browser = nAgt.substring(nameOffset, verOffset);
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 1);
            if (browser.toLowerCase() == browser.toUpperCase()) {
                browser = navigator.appName;
            }
        }
        // trim the version string
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(';')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(' ')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(')')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);

        majorVersion = parseInt('' + version, 10);
        if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
            version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
            majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
        }

        // mobile version
        var mobile = /Mobile|mini|Fennec|Android|iP(ad|od|hone)/.test(nVer);

        // cookie
        var cookieEnabled = (navigator.cookieEnabled) ? true : false;

        if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled == 'undefined' && !cookieEnabled) {
            document.cookie = 'testcookie';
            cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf('testcookie') != -1) ? true : false;
        }

        // system
        var os = unknown;
        var clientStrings = [
            {s:'Windows 10', r:/(Windows 10.0|Windows NT 10.0)/},
            {s:'Windows 8.1', r:/(Windows 8.1|Windows NT 6.3)/},
            {s:'Windows 8', r:/(Windows 8|Windows NT 6.2)/},
            {s:'Windows 7', r:/(Windows 7|Windows NT 6.1)/},
            {s:'Windows Vista', r:/Windows NT 6.0/},
            {s:'Windows Server 2003', r:/Windows NT 5.2/},
            {s:'Windows XP', r:/(Windows NT 5.1|Windows XP)/},
            {s:'Windows 2000', r:/(Windows NT 5.0|Windows 2000)/},
            {s:'Windows ME', r:/(Win 9x 4.90|Windows ME)/},
            {s:'Windows 98', r:/(Windows 98|Win98)/},
            {s:'Windows 95', r:/(Windows 95|Win95|Windows_95)/},
            {s:'Windows NT 4.0', r:/(Windows NT 4.0|WinNT4.0|WinNT|Windows NT)/},
            {s:'Windows CE', r:/Windows CE/},
            {s:'Windows 3.11', r:/Win16/},
            {s:'Android', r:/Android/},
            {s:'Open BSD', r:/OpenBSD/},
            {s:'Sun OS', r:/SunOS/},
            {s:'Chrome OS', r:/CrOS/},
            {s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11(?!.*CrOS))/},
            {s:'iOS', r:/(iPhone|iPad|iPod)/},
            {s:'Mac OS X', r:/Mac OS X/},
            {s:'Mac OS', r:/(Mac OS|MacPPC|MacIntel|Mac_PowerPC|Macintosh)/},
            {s:'QNX', r:/QNX/},
            {s:'UNIX', r:/UNIX/},
            {s:'BeOS', r:/BeOS/},
            {s:'OS/2', r:/OS\/2/},
            {s:'Search Bot', r:/(nuhk|Googlebot|Yammybot|Openbot|Slurp|MSNBot|Ask Jeeves\/Teoma|ia_archiver)/}
        ];
        for (var id in clientStrings) {
            var cs = clientStrings[id];
            if (cs.r.test(nAgt)) {
                os = cs.s;
                break;
            }
        }

        var osVersion = unknown;

        if (/Windows/.test(os)) {
            osVersion = /Windows (.*)/.exec(os)[1];
            os = 'Windows';
        }

        switch (os) {
            case 'Mac OS':
            case 'Mac OS X':
            case 'Android':
                osVersion = /(?:Android|Mac OS|Mac OS X|MacPPC|MacIntel|Mac_PowerPC|Macintosh) ([\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
                break;

            case 'iOS':
                osVersion = /OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/.exec(nVer);
                osVersion = osVersion[1] + '.' + osVersion[2] + '.' + (osVersion[3] | 0);
                break;
        }
        
        // flash (you'll need to include swfobject)
        /* script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js" */
        var flashVersion = 'no check';
        if (typeof swfobject != 'undefined') {
            var fv = swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion();
            if (fv.major > 0) {
                flashVersion = fv.major + '.' + fv.minor + ' r' + fv.release;
            }
            else  {
                flashVersion = unknown;
            }
        }
    }

    window.jscd = {
        screen: screenSize,
        browser: browser,
        browserVersion: version,
        browserMajorVersion: majorVersion,
        mobile: mobile,
        os: os,
        osVersion: osVersion,
        cookies: cookieEnabled,
        flashVersion: flashVersion
    };
}(this));

alert(
    'OS: ' + jscd.os +' '+ jscd.osVersion + '\n' +
    'Browser: ' + jscd.browser +' '+ jscd.browserMajorVersion +
      ' (' + jscd.browserVersion + ')\n' + 
    'Mobile: ' + jscd.mobile + '\n' +
    'Flash: ' + jscd.flashVersion + '\n' +
    'Cookies: ' + jscd.cookies + '\n' +
    'Screen Size: ' + jscd.screen + '\n\n' +
    'Full User Agent: ' + navigator.userAgent
);

This is perfect! Well written, easy to understand and it collects all the valuable information anyone would need. Thank you for taking the time to post this! — xxstevenxo, Oct 13 '13 at 15:53
Brilliant! The only flaw I found is that IE 11 no longer identifies itself as MS IE. I tried to post the fix is a comment here, but it was too long and wouldn't allow it. So I'll post is another response. But otherwise, this was perfect… Thanks so much! — Ian Ippolito, Jan 24 '14 at 20:39
Thanks for the info, I added the IE11 check in my code on http://jsfiddle.net/ChristianL/AVyND/ — Ludwig, Mar 31 '14 at 20:25
Nice solution, but unfortunately doesn't work correctly for Opera Next (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_web_browser#Version_15). It is detected as Chrome. In order to check for it, get index of 'OPR' in user agent. — Eadel, Oct 29 '14 at 08:35
Windows Server 2008 is detected as Vista (because it has "Windows NT 6.0"). Full string (for IE7): "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)". — kolobok, Jun 01 '15 at 16:56
@akapelko Unfortunately Microsoft uses the same version numbers for multiple OS (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx) — Ludwig, Jun 03 '15 at 08:23
Eadel is right... if ( (verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Opera')) != -1 || (verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('OPR')) != -1 ) { browser = 'Opera'; version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 4); if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) { version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8); } } — user2039290, Jul 28 '15 at 13:26
I was inspired by @Ludwig's code and created an open-sourced project on GitHub. https://github.com/keithws/browser-report — Keith Shaw, Sep 11 '15 at 18:31
@Ludwig May I suggest adding support for Chrome OS? `{s:'Chrome OS', r:/CrOS/}` - it'll need to go before `{s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11)/}`, as the Chrome OS user agent strings may also begin with `X11`... or add a little bit of a more robust check for Linux to ignore `X11` strings that include `CrOS` - `{s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11(?!.*CrOS))/}` — skwidbreth, Sep 27 '19 at 21:06
@skwidbreth Thanks. Added Crome OS and included the hardened Linux detection (in case someone changes the order) — Ludwig, Sep 30 '19 at 12:47
Regarding to number `10` in this line `osVersion = /Mac OS X (10[\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];`: [next macOS release](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Big_Sur) is `11`. So the code should be updated. — Shimon S, Sep 15 '20 at 10:35
@ShimonS. Thanks for the note. I've changed the general Mac OS detection. But due of lacking an OS X or OS 11 system, I would be happy if someone could be so kind and test the changes I've made in [Fiddle](http://jsfiddle.net/ChristianL/AVyND/). In addition I added the detection of the new Edge browser (see breaking changes above). — Ludwig, Sep 17 '20 at 08:56

score 203 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 29 '21 at 18:56

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If you list all of window.navigator's properties using

console.log(navigator);

You'll see something like this

# platform = Win32
# appCodeName = Mozilla
# appName = Netscape
# appVersion = 5.0 (Windows; en-US)
# language = en-US
# mimeTypes = [object MimeTypeArray]
# oscpu = Windows NT 5.1
# vendor = Firefox
# vendorSub = 1.0.7
# product = Gecko
# productSub = 20050915
# plugins = [object PluginArray]
# securityPolicy =
# userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
# cookieEnabled = true
# javaEnabled = function javaEnabled() { [native code] }
# taintEnabled = function taintEnabled() { [native code] }
# preference = function preference() { [native code] }

Note that oscpu attribute gives you the Windows version. Also, you should know that:

'Windows 3.11' => 'Win16',
'Windows 95' => '(Windows 95)|(Win95)|(Windows_95)',
'Windows 98' => '(Windows 98)|(Win98)',
'Windows 2000' => '(Windows NT 5.0)|(Windows 2000)',
'Windows XP' => '(Windows NT 5.1)|(Windows XP)',
'Windows Server 2003' => '(Windows NT 5.2)',
'Windows Vista' => '(Windows NT 6.0)',
'Windows 7' => '(Windows NT 6.1)',
'Windows 8' => '(Windows NT 6.2)|(WOW64)',
'Windows 10' => '(Windows 10.0)|(Windows NT 10.0)',
'Windows NT 4.0' => '(Windows NT 4.0)|(WinNT4.0)|(WinNT)|(Windows NT)',
'Windows ME' => 'Windows ME',
'Open BSD' => 'OpenBSD',
'Sun OS' => 'SunOS',
'Linux' => '(Linux)|(X11)',
'Mac OS' => '(Mac_PowerPC)|(Macintosh)',
'QNX' => 'QNX',
'BeOS' => 'BeOS',
'OS/2' => 'OS/2',
'Search Bot'=>'(nuhk)|(Googlebot)|(Yammybot)|(Openbot)|(Slurp)|(MSNBot)|(Ask Jeeves/Teoma)|(ia_archiver)'

edited Jan 29 '21 at 18:56

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Of course (Windows NT 6.2) See this link https://bitbucket.org/cat_in_136/configuration-mania/src/07c8e0e933a50b250791e3a542bdb0021d273be5/chrome/content/confmania/useragent.xml – kaissun Apr 01 '13 at 15:09
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oscpu worked inconsistently for me when I tested it across the 4 major browsers on Windows 7. @Ludwig's solution worked consistently. – Ian Ippolito Jan 24 '14 at 21:04
according to wikpedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_6.1 windows NT 6.1 can be either win 7, win 2008 server or windows small business server, is there a way determine which one is which? – Juan Carlos Alpizar Chinchilla May 06 '14 at 02:30
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window.navigator.oscpu is undefined in chrome – Curtis Sep 02 '14 at 21:11
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I'm also observing window.navigator.oscpu undefined in Chrome, so this solution isn't much help. – Lucian Wischik Jul 20 '16 at 13:34
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window.navigator.platform has got the OS in Chrome. – Ketha Kavya Sep 19 '16 at 05:55
I want to get only few details form this list. could i split this details as chunk? – Sidath Oct 03 '16 at 04:10
Does anyone know the value for Windows 10 S (the secure version)? – Spartacus Feb 13 '18 at 18:45
This fails to get the MacOS Version – tmarois Nov 16 '20 at 16:55

score 93 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 18 '21 at 17:46

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var OSName = "Unknown";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 10.0")!= -1) OSName="Windows 10";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 6.3") != -1) OSName="Windows 8.1";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 6.2") != -1) OSName="Windows 8";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 6.1") != -1) OSName="Windows 7";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 6.0") != -1) OSName="Windows Vista";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 5.1") != -1) OSName="Windows XP";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT 5.0") != -1) OSName="Windows 2000";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac")            != -1) OSName="Mac/iOS";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("X11")            != -1) OSName="UNIX";
if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Linux")          != -1) OSName="Linux";

edited Feb 18 '21 at 17:46

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answered Oct 04 '13 at 08:36

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@Jeff something something premature optimisation :) – RozzA Jan 29 '18 at 02:33
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very simplistic, cut and dry answer.. all I needed. The other answers are too customized. – eaglei22 Aug 30 '18 at 15:02
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shouldn't you use `else if` from the second check? – transang Dec 06 '20 at 07:27

Ian Ippolito · Answer 4 · 2014-01-24T20:59:49.590

@Ludwig 's solution was brilliant. A couple of fixes (which didn't have to do with operating system, and I couldn't place as a comment on his original posting because this is too long):

IE 11 no longer identifies itself as MS IE.
Chrome on IOS spoofs itself as Safari

Here they are:

(function (window) {
    {
    /* test cases
        alert(
            'browserInfo result: OS: ' + browserInfo.os +' '+ browserInfo.osVersion + '\n'+
                'Browser: ' + browserInfo.browser +' '+ browserInfo.browserVersion + '\n' +
                'Mobile: ' + browserInfo.mobile + '\n' +
                'Cookies: ' + browserInfo.cookies + '\n' +
                'Screen Size: ' + browserInfo.screen
        );
    */
        var unknown = 'Unknown';

        // screen
        var screenSize = '';
        if (screen.width) {
            width = (screen.width) ? screen.width : '';
            height = (screen.height) ? screen.height : '';
            screenSize += '' + width + " x " + height;
        }

        //browser
        var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
        var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
        var browser = navigator.appName;
        var version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
        var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
        var nameOffset, verOffset, ix;

        // Opera
        if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Opera')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Opera';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);
            if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
            }
        }
        // MSIE
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('MSIE')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
        }

        //IE 11 no longer identifies itself as MS IE, so trap it
        //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17907445/how-to-detect-ie11
        else if ((browser == 'Netscape') && (nAgt.indexOf('Trident/') != -1)) {

            browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
            if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('rv:')) != -1) {
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 3);
            }

        }

        // Chrome
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Chrome')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Chrome';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
        }
        // Safari
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Safari')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Safari';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
            if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
            }

            // Chrome on iPad identifies itself as Safari. Actual results do not match what Google claims
            //  at: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/user-agent?hl=ja
            //  No mention of chrome in the user agent string. However it does mention CriOS, which presumably
            //  can be keyed on to detect it.
            if (nAgt.indexOf('CriOS') != -1) {
                //Chrome on iPad spoofing Safari...correct it.
                browser = 'Chrome';
                //Don't believe there is a way to grab the accurate version number, so leaving that for now.
            }
        }
        // Firefox
        else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Firefox')) != -1) {
            browser = 'Firefox';
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
        }
        // Other browsers
        else if ((nameOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1) < (verOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf('/'))) {
            browser = nAgt.substring(nameOffset, verOffset);
            version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 1);
            if (browser.toLowerCase() == browser.toUpperCase()) {
                browser = navigator.appName;
            }
        }
        // trim the version string
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(';')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(' ')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
        if ((ix = version.indexOf(')')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);

        majorVersion = parseInt('' + version, 10);
        if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
            version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
            majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
        }

        // mobile version
        var mobile = /Mobile|mini|Fennec|Android|iP(ad|od|hone)/.test(nVer);

        // cookie
        var cookieEnabled = (navigator.cookieEnabled) ? true : false;

        if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled == 'undefined' && !cookieEnabled) {
            document.cookie = 'testcookie';
            cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf('testcookie') != -1) ? true : false;
        }

        // system
        var os = unknown;
        var clientStrings = [
            {s:'Windows 3.11', r:/Win16/},
            {s:'Windows 95', r:/(Windows 95|Win95|Windows_95)/},
            {s:'Windows ME', r:/(Win 9x 4.90|Windows ME)/},
            {s:'Windows 98', r:/(Windows 98|Win98)/},
            {s:'Windows CE', r:/Windows CE/},
            {s:'Windows 2000', r:/(Windows NT 5.0|Windows 2000)/},
            {s:'Windows XP', r:/(Windows NT 5.1|Windows XP)/},
            {s:'Windows Server 2003', r:/Windows NT 5.2/},
            {s:'Windows Vista', r:/Windows NT 6.0/},
            {s:'Windows 7', r:/(Windows 7|Windows NT 6.1)/},
            {s:'Windows 8.1', r:/(Windows 8.1|Windows NT 6.3)/},
            {s:'Windows 8', r:/(Windows 8|Windows NT 6.2)/},
            {s:'Windows NT 4.0', r:/(Windows NT 4.0|WinNT4.0|WinNT|Windows NT)/},
            {s:'Windows ME', r:/Windows ME/},
            {s:'Android', r:/Android/},
            {s:'Open BSD', r:/OpenBSD/},
            {s:'Sun OS', r:/SunOS/},
            {s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11)/},
            {s:'iOS', r:/(iPhone|iPad|iPod)/},
            {s:'Mac OS X', r:/Mac OS X/},
            {s:'Mac OS', r:/(MacPPC|MacIntel|Mac_PowerPC|Macintosh)/},
            {s:'QNX', r:/QNX/},
            {s:'UNIX', r:/UNIX/},
            {s:'BeOS', r:/BeOS/},
            {s:'OS/2', r:/OS\/2/},
            {s:'Search Bot', r:/(nuhk|Googlebot|Yammybot|Openbot|Slurp|MSNBot|Ask Jeeves\/Teoma|ia_archiver)/}
        ];
        for (var id in clientStrings) {
            var cs = clientStrings[id];
            if (cs.r.test(nAgt)) {
                os = cs.s;
                break;
            }
        }

        var osVersion = unknown;

        if (/Windows/.test(os)) {
            osVersion = /Windows (.*)/.exec(os)[1];
            os = 'Windows';
        }

        switch (os) {
            case 'Mac OS X':
                osVersion = /Mac OS X (10[\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
                break;

            case 'Android':
                osVersion = /Android ([\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
                break;

            case 'iOS':
                osVersion = /OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/.exec(nVer);
                osVersion = osVersion[1] + '.' + osVersion[2] + '.' + (osVersion[3] | 0);
                break;

        }
    }

    window.browserInfo = {
        screen: screenSize,
        browser: browser,
        browserVersion: version,
        mobile: mobile,
        os: os,
        osVersion: osVersion,
        cookies: cookieEnabled
    };
}(this));

I've started a github repo based on this. https://github.com/thorst/Browser. Aiming to be minimal, but have enough coverage. — Todd Horst, Mar 12 '14 at 14:40
So now all you have to do is keep updating it for every browser on every device as they're released. I don't see "Samsung SmartTV" anywhere. — RobG, Oct 20 '15 at 22:26
@Ian Ippolito this is very helpful many thanks. Also i would like to know how can we find the edge browser and its version. — Vijay, Nov 29 '17 at 13:06

score 14 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 15 '21 at 13:33

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JavaScript have access to the window.navigator.platform - a string representing the platform of the browser: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorID/platform

Use it to extract whatever details you need (and can). Note that there are no guarantees that the client actually uses that platform since this can easily be modified in many ways.

edited Jan 15 '21 at 13:33

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"This feature has been removed from the Web standards. Though some browsers may still support it, it is in the process of being dropped. Do not use it in old or new projects. Pages or Web apps using it may break at any time." – Con Antonakos Mar 08 '16 at 04:10
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@ConAntonakos can you provide a reference for that statement? That isn't mentioned in the MDN link in this answer. – Splaktar Sep 24 '17 at 06:16
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@Splaktar - That's so odd. That messaged was definitely there, but I see it's not anymore. I think at some point in 2016 it was considered? I also see this question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38506517/deprecated-javascript-os-detection-techniques), so someone else noticed it as well. Thanks for the update. – Con Antonakos Sep 25 '17 at 17:19
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I think the docs are messed up, it still says it's deprecated in the portuguese version: https://developer.mozilla.org/pt-BR/docs/Web/API/NavigatorID/platform – Gark Garcia Jan 21 '19 at 11:34
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UPDATE: I fixed the portuguese docs and I verified that the english docs were indeed corrected at some point. – Gark Garcia Jan 21 '19 at 12:41
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@gark do you work for Mozilla or something or did you hack it? If you hacked it how for you do it? – bluejayke Nov 29 '20 at 20:15

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 20 '14 at 19:35

platform.js seems like a good one file library to do this.

Usage example:

// on IE10 x86 platform preview running in IE7 compatibility mode on Windows 7 64 bit edition
platform.name; // 'IE'
platform.version; // '10.0'
platform.layout; // 'Trident'
platform.os; // 'Windows Server 2008 R2 / 7 x64'
platform.description; // 'IE 10.0 x86 (platform preview; running in IE 7 mode) on Windows Server 2008 R2 / 7 x64'

// or on an iPad
platform.name; // 'Safari'
platform.version; // '5.1'
platform.product; // 'iPad'
platform.manufacturer; // 'Apple'
platform.layout; // 'WebKit'
platform.os; // 'iOS 5.0'
platform.description; // 'Safari 5.1 on Apple iPad (iOS 5.0)'

// or parsing a given UA string
var info = platform.parse('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.2; en; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Opera 11.52');
info.name; // 'Opera'
info.version; // '11.52'
info.layout; // 'Presto'
info.os; // 'Mac OS X 10.7.2'
info.description; // 'Opera 11.52 (identifying as Firefox 4.0) on Mac OS X 10.7.2'

score 10 · Answer 7 · answered May 28 '18 at 22:47

You can use this javascript function to check users' OS simply

  function getOS() {
  var userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent,
      platform = window.navigator.platform,
      macosPlatforms = ['Macintosh', 'MacIntel', 'MacPPC', 'Mac68K'],
      windowsPlatforms = ['Win32', 'Win64', 'Windows', 'WinCE'],
      iosPlatforms = ['iPhone', 'iPad', 'iPod'],
      os = null;

  if (macosPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) {
    os = 'Mac OS';
  } else if (iosPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) {
    os = 'iOS';
  } else if (windowsPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) {
    os = 'Windows';
  } else if (/Android/.test(userAgent)) {
    os = 'Android';
  } else if (!os && /Linux/.test(platform)) {
    os = 'Linux';
  }

  return os;
}

alert(getOS());

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 11 '15 at 18:27

You can find the OS name and version in the navigator object, as others have answered. The standard, cross-browser place to find this information is in the navigator.userAgent property. However, user agent strings vary widely by OS and browser.

So, I created a script to encapsulate this logic and report on the most common OSes and browsers in a familiar way, like http://www.whatsmybrowser.org.

I open-sourced the script and uploaded it to github, https://github.com/keithws/browser-report. Pull requests are welcome!

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 18:52

I fork @Ludwig code and remove necessity of swfobject.

I just use swfobject code for detect flash version.

/**
 * JavaScript Client Detection
 * (C) viazenetti GmbH (Christian Ludwig)
 */
(function (window) {
    {
    var unknown = '-';

    // screen
    var screenSize = '';
    if (screen.width) {
        width = (screen.width) ? screen.width : '';
        height = (screen.height) ? screen.height : '';
        screenSize += '' + width + " x " + height;
    }

    //browser
    var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
    var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
    var browser = navigator.appName;
    var version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
    var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
    var nameOffset, verOffset, ix;

    // Opera
    if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Opera')) != -1) {
        browser = 'Opera';
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);
        if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
        }
    }
    // MSIE
    else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('MSIE')) != -1) {
        browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
    }
    // Chrome
    else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Chrome')) != -1) {
        browser = 'Chrome';
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
    }
    // Safari
    else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Safari')) != -1) {
        browser = 'Safari';
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
        if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
        }
    }
    // Firefox
    else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Firefox')) != -1) {
        browser = 'Firefox';
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
    }
    // MSIE 11+
    else if (nAgt.indexOf('Trident/') != -1) {
        browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
        version = nAgt.substring(nAgt.indexOf('rv:') + 3);
    }
    // Other browsers
    else if ((nameOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1) < (verOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf('/'))) {
        browser = nAgt.substring(nameOffset, verOffset);
        version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 1);
        if (browser.toLowerCase() == browser.toUpperCase()) {
        browser = navigator.appName;
        }
    }
    // trim the version string
    if ((ix = version.indexOf(';')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
    if ((ix = version.indexOf(' ')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
    if ((ix = version.indexOf(')')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);

    majorVersion = parseInt('' + version, 10);
    if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
        version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
        majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
    }

    // mobile version
    var mobile = /Mobile|mini|Fennec|Android|iP(ad|od|hone)/.test(nVer);

    // cookie
    var cookieEnabled = (navigator.cookieEnabled) ? true : false;

    if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled == 'undefined' && !cookieEnabled) {
        document.cookie = 'testcookie';
        cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf('testcookie') != -1) ? true : false;
    }

    // system
    var os = unknown;
    var clientStrings = [
        {s:'Windows 10', r:/(Windows 10.0|Windows NT 10.0)/},
        {s:'Windows 8.1', r:/(Windows 8.1|Windows NT 6.3)/},
        {s:'Windows 8', r:/(Windows 8|Windows NT 6.2)/},
        {s:'Windows 7', r:/(Windows 7|Windows NT 6.1)/},
        {s:'Windows Vista', r:/Windows NT 6.0/},
        {s:'Windows Server 2003', r:/Windows NT 5.2/},
        {s:'Windows XP', r:/(Windows NT 5.1|Windows XP)/},
        {s:'Windows 2000', r:/(Windows NT 5.0|Windows 2000)/},
        {s:'Windows ME', r:/(Win 9x 4.90|Windows ME)/},
        {s:'Windows 98', r:/(Windows 98|Win98)/},
        {s:'Windows 95', r:/(Windows 95|Win95|Windows_95)/},
        {s:'Windows NT 4.0', r:/(Windows NT 4.0|WinNT4.0|WinNT|Windows NT)/},
        {s:'Windows CE', r:/Windows CE/},
        {s:'Windows 3.11', r:/Win16/},
        {s:'Android', r:/Android/},
        {s:'Open BSD', r:/OpenBSD/},
        {s:'Sun OS', r:/SunOS/},
        {s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11)/},
        {s:'iOS', r:/(iPhone|iPad|iPod)/},
        {s:'Mac OS X', r:/Mac OS X/},
        {s:'Mac OS', r:/(MacPPC|MacIntel|Mac_PowerPC|Macintosh)/},
        {s:'QNX', r:/QNX/},
        {s:'UNIX', r:/UNIX/},
        {s:'BeOS', r:/BeOS/},
        {s:'OS/2', r:/OS\/2/},
        {s:'Search Bot', r:/(nuhk|Googlebot|Yammybot|Openbot|Slurp|MSNBot|Ask Jeeves\/Teoma|ia_archiver)/}
    ];
    for (var id in clientStrings) {
        var cs = clientStrings[id];
        if (cs.r.test(nAgt)) {
        os = cs.s;
        break;
        }
    }

    var osVersion = unknown;

    if (/Windows/.test(os)) {
        osVersion = /Windows (.*)/.exec(os)[1];
        os = 'Windows';
    }

    switch (os) {
        case 'Mac OS X':
        osVersion = /Mac OS X (10[\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
        break;

        case 'Android':
        osVersion = /Android ([\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
        break;

        case 'iOS':
        osVersion = /OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/.exec(nVer);
        osVersion = osVersion[1] + '.' + osVersion[2] + '.' + (osVersion[3] | 0);
        break;
    }

    var flashVersion = 'no check', d, fv = [];
    if (typeof navigator.plugins !== 'undefined' && typeof navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] === "object") {
        d = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description;
        if (d && !(typeof navigator.mimeTypes !== 'undefined' && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] && !navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin)) { // navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin indicates whether plug-ins are enabled or disabled in Safari 3+
        d = d.replace(/^.*\s+(\S+\s+\S+$)/, "$1");
        fv[0] = parseInt(d.replace(/^(.*)\..*$/, "$1"), 10);
        fv[1] = parseInt(d.replace(/^.*\.(.*)\s.*$/, "$1"), 10);
        fv[2] = /[a-zA-Z]/.test(d) ? parseInt(d.replace(/^.*[a-zA-Z]+(.*)$/, "$1"), 10) : 0;
        }
    } else if (typeof window.ActiveXObject !== 'undefined') {
        try {
        var a = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");
        if (a) { // a will return null when ActiveX is disabled
            d = a.GetVariable("$version");
            if (d) {
            d = d.split(" ")[1].split(",");
            fv = [parseInt(d[0], 10), parseInt(d[1], 10), parseInt(d[2], 10)];
            }
        }
        }
        catch(e) {}
    }
    if (fv.length) {
        flashVersion = fv[0] + '.' + fv[1] + ' r' + fv[2];
    }    
    }

    window.jscd = {
    screen: screenSize,
    browser: browser,
    browserVersion: version,
    mobile: mobile,
    os: os,
    osVersion: osVersion,
    cookies: cookieEnabled,
    flashVersion: flashVersion
    };
}(this));

alert(
    'OS: ' + jscd.os +' '+ jscd.osVersion + '\n'+
    'Browser: ' + jscd.browser +' '+ jscd.browserVersion + '\n' + 
    'Mobile: ' + jscd.mobile + '\n' +
    'Flash: ' + jscd.flashVersion + '\n' +
    'Cookies: ' + jscd.cookies + '\n' +
    'Screen Size: ' + jscd.screen + '\n\n' +
    'Full User Agent: ' + navigator.userAgent
);

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 21:50

I can't comment on @Ian Ippolito answer (because I would have if I had the rep) but according to the document his comment linked, I'm fairly certain you can find the Chrome version for IOS. https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent?hl=ja lists the UA as: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/56.0.2924.75 Mobile/14E5239e Safari/602.1

So this should work:

if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('CriOS')) != -1) {
                //Chrome on iPad spoofing Safari...correct it.
                browser = 'Chrome';
                version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);//should get the criOS ver.
            }

Haven't been able to test (otherwise I would have improved his answer) it to make sure since my iPad is at home and I'm at work, but I thought I'd put it out there.

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 28 '17 at 08:00

Use detectOS.js:

var Detect = {
    init: function () {
        this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS);
    },
    searchString: function (data) {
        for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++) {
            var dataString = data[i].string;
            var dataProp = data[i].prop;
            if (dataString) {
                if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
                    return data[i].identity;
            }
            else if (dataProp)
                return data[i].identity;
        }
    },
    dataOS : [
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: 'Win',
            identity: 'Windows'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: 'Mac',
            identity: 'macOS'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: 'iPhone',
            identity: 'iOS'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: 'iPad',
            identity: 'iOS'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: 'iPod',
            identity: 'iOS'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: 'Android',
            identity: 'Android'
        },
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: 'Linux',
            identity: 'Linux'
        }
    ]
};

Detect.init();

console.log("We know your OS – it's " + Detect.OS + ". We know everything about you.");

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Dec 01 '18 at 23:18

Hey for a quick solution you can consider the following library : UAPARSER - https://www.npmjs.com/package/ua-parser-js

example :

<script type="text/javascript" src="ua-parser.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

var parser = new UAParser();
console.log(parser.getOS()) // will log  {name: "", version:""}

you can also install the library via npm, and import it like this:

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
let parser = new UAParser();
parser.getOS();

the library is a JS based user agent string parser (window.navigator.userAgent is the user agent on browser) , so you can get with it other details aswell such as Browser,device,engines etc..and it can work with node js as well.

if you need typing for the library : https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/ua-parser-js

score 1 · Answer 13 · edited Mar 08 '21 at 02:13

1

I am using this :)

getPlatform() {
    const allPlatforms = ['Win32', 'Win64', 'Windows', 'WinCE', 'Android', 'iPhone', 'iPad', 'iPod'];
    return allPlatforms.find(item => item === navigator.platform);
}

edited Mar 08 '21 at 02:13

myeongkil kim

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answered Mar 08 '21 at 00:44

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Mar 01 '12 at 10:15

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I've created a library for parsing User Agent strings called Voodoo. But be aware that this should not be used instead of feature detection.

What Voodoo does, is that it parses the userAgent string, which is found in the Navigator object (window.navigator). It's not all browsers that passes a reliable userAgent string, so even though it's the normal way to do it, the userAgent can not always be trusted.

answered Mar 01 '12 at 10:15

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I loved the Voodoo, but I think should be a way to easily distinguish between mobile, tablet etc... please post it at gittip so I can tip you for the nice job. – lolol May 10 '13 at 21:28

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