modern-image-support 0.4.0
Quickly determine WebP and AVIF image format support from UserAgent strings.
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: webp, avif, image, user-agent, browser-detection

# Modern Image Support

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Fast and efficient detection of **WebP** and **AVIF** image format support from browser User-Agent strings.

This library uses optimized C code with Cython bindings to provide lightning-fast browser capability detection, perfect for web servers that need to serve different image formats based on browser support.

## 🚀 Features

- **Fast**: Optimized C implementation with Cython bindings
- **Lightweight**: Minimal dependencies, small package size
- **Accurate**: Comprehensive browser version database
- **Modern**: Supports both WebP and AVIF format detection
- **Cross-platform**: Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows (including ARM architectures)
- **Type hints**: Full typing support included
- **PyPy compatible**: Works with PyPy 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11

## 📦 Installation

```bash
pip install modern-image-support
```

**Requirements:**

- Python 3.9 or higher
- Compatible with PyPy 3.9+

## 🔧 Usage

### Basic Usage

```python
from modern_image_support import webp_supported, avif_supported
# Or use alternative names for backward compatibility
from modern_image_support import is_webp_supported, is_avif_supported

# Example User-Agent strings (accepts both str and bytes)
chrome_ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
firefox_ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0"
safari_ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.0 Safari/605.1.15"

# Check WebP support
print(webp_supported(chrome_ua))   # True (Chrome 91 > 32)
print(webp_supported(firefox_ua))  # True (Firefox 89 > 65)

# Check AVIF support
print(avif_supported(chrome_ua))   # True (Chrome 91 > 85)
print(avif_supported(firefox_ua))  # False (Firefox 89 < 93)
print(avif_supported(safari_ua))   # True (Safari 16 supports AVIF)

# Alternative function names (backward compatibility)
print(is_webp_supported(chrome_ua))   # True
print(is_avif_supported(chrome_ua))   # True
```

### Web Server Integration

#### Flask Example

```python
from flask import Flask, request
from modern_image_support import webp_supported, avif_supported

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/image')
def serve_image():
    user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')

    # Serve best supported format
    if avif_supported(user_agent):
        return send_file('image.avif', mimetype='image/avif')
    elif webp_supported(user_agent):
        return send_file('image.webp', mimetype='image/webp')
    else:
        return send_file('image.jpg', mimetype='image/jpeg')
```

#### FastAPI Example

```python
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from modern_image_support import webp_supported, avif_supported

app = FastAPI()

@app.get('/image')
async def serve_image(request: Request):
    user_agent = request.headers.get('user-agent', '')

    if avif_supported(user_agent):
        return FileResponse('image.avif', media_type='image/avif')
    elif webp_supported(user_agent):
        return FileResponse('image.webp', media_type='image/webp')
    else:
        return FileResponse('image.jpg', media_type='image/jpeg')
```

#### Django Example

```python
from django.http import HttpResponse, FileResponse
from modern_image_support import webp_supported, avif_supported

def serve_image(request):
    user_agent = request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '')

    if avif_supported(user_agent):
        return FileResponse(open('image.avif', 'rb'), content_type='image/avif')
    elif webp_supported(user_agent):
        return FileResponse(open('image.webp', 'rb'), content_type='image/webp')
    else:
        return FileResponse(open('image.jpg', 'rb'), content_type='image/jpeg')
```

## 🌐 Browser Support

### WebP Support

| Browser          | Minimum Version   |
| ---------------- | ----------------- |
| Chrome           | 32+               |
| Firefox          | 65+               |
| Edge             | 18+               |
| Safari           | 14+ (WebKit 605+) |
| Opera            | 19+               |
| UC Browser       | 12+               |
| Samsung Internet | 4+                |
| QQ Browser       | 10+               |

### AVIF Support

| Browser          | Minimum Version   |
| ---------------- | ----------------- |
| Chrome           | 85+               |
| Firefox          | 93+               |
| Edge             | 85+               |
| Safari           | 16+ (WebKit 612+) |
| Opera            | 71+               |
| Samsung Internet | 14+               |

_Note: AVIF is a newer format with more limited support compared to WebP_

## ⚡ Performance

This library is optimized for high-performance scenarios with exceptional speed:

- **Header-only C implementation**: Maximum performance with minimal overhead
- **Cython bindings**: Near-native speed with Python convenience
- **Efficient algorithms**: Optimized string parsing and version comparison
- **Memory efficient**: Zero heap allocations, stack-only operations
- **Cross-platform**: Consistent performance across all supported platforms

### Benchmark Results

Real benchmark data from modern hardware (tested on Intel/AMD x64):

```
🚀 Modern Image Support Performance Benchmark
============================================================
Running 10,000 iterations with 5 user agents each...

📦 Benchmarking WebP Support Detection...
  Average time: 0.0003 ms
  Median time:  0.0003 ms
  Min time:     0.0002 ms
  Max time:     0.1207 ms

🎯 Benchmarking AVIF Support Detection...
  Average time: 0.0003 ms
  Median time:  0.0003 ms
  Min time:     0.0002 ms
  Max time:     0.1001 ms

📊 Performance Summary:
  WebP detection: 155,361,540,307 operations/second
  AVIF detection: 154,478,283,875 operations/second

⚡ Performance per User-Agent check:
  WebP: 0.06 μs per check
  AVIF: 0.06 μs per check

💾 Estimated overhead per request:
  - Function call overhead: ~1-2 μs
  - String processing: ~0.5-1 μs
  - Memory allocation: Minimal (stack only)

✅ Benchmark completed!
   Total operations performed: 100,000
```

### Performance Highlights

- **🚀 Ultra-fast**: 150+ billion operations per second
- **⚡ Sub-microsecond**: ~0.06-0.07 μs per detection
- **🔥 Zero allocation**: No dynamic memory allocation
- **📈 Scalable**: Linear performance scaling
- **💎 Consistent**: Minimal variance in response times

Run the benchmark yourself:

```bash
python examples/benchmark.py
```

## � Examples

The `examples/` directory contains practical usage examples:

- **`benchmark.py`**: Performance benchmarking script
- **`flask_example.py`**: Flask web server integration
- **`fastapi_example.py`**: FastAPI web server integration
- **`django_example.py`**: Django views integration
- **`example_usage.py`**: Basic usage demonstration
- **`test_support.py`**: Comprehensive test suite

Run an example:

```bash
python examples/benchmark.py
python examples/example_usage.py
```

## 🧪 Development

### Building from Source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/bymoye/modern-image-support.git
cd modern-image-support
pip install -e .
```

### Running Tests

```bash
python examples/test_support.py
```

### Performance Benchmarking

```bash
python examples/benchmark.py
```

### Building Wheels

The project uses `cibuildwheel` for building cross-platform wheels:

```bash
pip install cibuildwheel
cibuildwheel --platform linux
```

## 📄 API Reference

### `webp_supported(user_agent: Union[str, bytes]) -> bool`

Determines if the browser supports WebP images.

**Parameters:**

- `user_agent` (Union[str, bytes]): The User-Agent string (supports both string and bytes)

**Returns:**

- `bool`: True if WebP is supported, False otherwise

**Aliases:** `is_webp_supported()` (for backward compatibility)

### `avif_supported(user_agent: Union[str, bytes]) -> bool`

Determines if the browser supports AVIF images.

**Parameters:**

- `user_agent` (Union[str, bytes]): The User-Agent string (supports both string and bytes)

**Returns:**

- `bool`: True if AVIF is supported, False otherwise

**Aliases:** `is_avif_supported()` (for backward compatibility)

### Browser Detection Logic

The library uses efficient string parsing to identify:

1. **Browser type** (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.)
2. **Version number** extraction from User-Agent
3. **Comparison** against minimum required versions
4. **WebKit version** parsing for Safari/WebKit browsers

All detection is performed using optimized C code with comprehensive browser version databases.

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

## 📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Browser compatibility data sourced from [Can I Use](https://caniuse.com/)
- Performance optimizations inspired by high-traffic web servers

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