minidetector

Django middleware and view decorator to detect phones and small-screen devices

This application is a simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles.

This mostly works using a list of search strings, though there are a couple of other tricks, like detecting the presence of Opera Mini. The strings are in an easily-parseable text file, and thus can be used for other similar projects.

It also includes a pretty extensive list of user agents to test against.

This project is a community project, feel free to contact us to provide help, patches or information that can make this project better.

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django mobile phone cellphone pda console detector python web middleware wrapper