Browser Capabilities Project
Providing regularly updated browscap.ini and related downloads since 1998!

Downloads

Version: 4911
Released: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:00:27 -0000

The Basics

browscap.ini
Do not use with PHP!
The standard version of my browscap.ini file for IIS 5.x and greater.
465,540 bytes

lite_asp_browscap.ini
Do not use with PHP!
A smaller version of my browscap.ini file containing major browsers & search engines. This file is adequate for most websites.
213,399 bytes

php_browscap.ini
Use only with PHP!
A special version of browscap.ini for PHP users only!
468,414 bytes

lite_php_browscap.ini
Use only with PHP!
A smaller version of my php_browscap.ini file containing major browsers & search engines. This file is adequate for most websites.
213,991 bytes

browscap.zip
Combines all the above files into one download that's smaller than all four files together.
128,013 bytes

Raw Data For Do-It-Yourself Projects

property-name-docs.xml
When using the files you will have access to the property names and related values in this XML file.
5,790 bytes

browscap.xml
The standard version of my browscap.ini file in XML format.
1,719,021 bytes

browscap.csv
An industry-standard comma-separated-values version of browscap.ini. Easily imported into Access, Excel, mySQL & others.
1,318,972 bytes

known_agents.zip
This file contains the 200,013 unique user agents seen by this project since its inception.
1,741,594 bytes

v2_httpd.ini
Works with ISAPI_Rewrite v2 to help block badly behaved bots.
42,063 bytes

v3_httpd.ini
Works with ISAPI_Rewrite v3 to help block badly behaved bots.
49,543 bytes

notes.txt
Contains notes and links about some of the user agents.
73,724 bytes

robots.txt
Use this file to help stop abusive bots and crawlers from indexing your website.
18,621 bytes

The Latest News

Interim update to add support for Win8 in IE10.

As always, if you spot any bugs or missing patterns in the files please use the contact form to let us know.

Older News...

Automation

Please be sure you've read, understand, and agree to abide by both our FAQ, and Terms of Use before any attempts at using automation.

ASP Scripts

We had to withdraw the user-donated script that used to be offered here due to too many systems throwing malware-detection alerts; mostly by AV and firewalls. We presently have plans to start working on our own script to do this, but there's no timetable for its release. As usual, any user contributions will be considered.

PHP Scripts

If you are in a shared hosting situation where the host doesn't keep browscap.ini updated, or worse doesn't even provide access to it, or if you just can't stand the bugginess of PHP's get_browser() function, then these links are for you. They each implement their own browscap.ini parser and let you set the path to the file. And they each automatically check for and download my updated files. I highly recommend the first link to Jonathan Stoppani's PHP Browscap class:

Optimized For PHP5
Optimized for PHP and Linux

Additional Resources

WebmasterWorld is one of the premiere websites for intelligent discussions amongst internet professionals. I have been a member since approximately 2000. Most of my time there is spent in the Search Engine Spider and User Agent Identification forum. Join me there and stay abreast of the latest goings on with bots and other user agents.

We always tweet about updates to the files. The participation level on our Facebook discussion board is dismal, but we do keep trying to stimulate discussions about things related to the project.