django-pybrowscap 1.0.0
django-pybrowscap is django middleware with support for pybrowscap
License: BSD
Keywords: browser browscap detection user agent django

django-pybrowscap
=================


django-pybrowscap is django middleware with support for pybrowscap.
It decorates request with browser attribute, which contains all possible information
about the User-Agent accessing the view.

Requirements
------------

- python 2.7+
- django
- requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/)
- pybrowscap
- browscap csv file (http://browsers.garykeith.com/downloads.asp)


Installation
------------

Install via pipy or copy this module into your project or into your PYTHON_PATH.


**Put django_pybrowscap into INSTALLED_APPS in your projects settings.py file**

::

 INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'localeurl',
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.sites',
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.sitemaps',
     'web',
     'debug_toolbar',
     'rosetta',
     'south',
     'django_pybrowscap'
 )


**Put django_pybrowscap.middleware.PybrowscapMiddleware into MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your projects settings.py file**

::

 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'web.middleware.LocaleMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django_pybrowscap.middleware.PybrowscapMiddleware',
     ....
 )


Configuration
-------------

**django settings.py constants**

::

 # This setting will effectively turn the middleware off, to speed up requests/response while developing
 PYBROWSCAP_INITIALIZE = True # Default is `not settings.DEBUG`.

 # Path where browscap file is located on filesystem
 PYBROWSCAP_FILE_PATH = MEDIA_ROOT+os.sep+'browscap.csv' # Default is '' (empty string)

 # Proxy to use
 # See: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
 PYBROWSCAP_PROXIES = {
   "http": "http://user:pass@10.10.1.10:3128",
   "https": "http://10.10.1.10:1080",
 } # Defaults to None.

 # Timeout for HTTP requets
 # See: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#timeouts
 PYBROWSCAP_HTTP_TIMEOUT = 30

 # Tuple of regular expressions of paths that are to be ignored by the middleware
 PYBROWSCAP_IGNORE_PATHS = (
     re.compile(r'^/sitemap.xml$'),
     re.compile(r'^/robots.txt$'),
     re.compile(r'^/favicon.ico$'),
     re.compile(r'^/media/')
 ) # Defaults to an empty tupple.

 # This tells middleware to reload browscap file from disk every PYBROWSCAP_RELOAD_INTERVAL seconds
 PYBROWSCAP_RELOAD = True # Reload file. Default is False.
 PYBROWSCAP_RELOAD_INTERVAL =  7 * 24 * 60 * 60 # Reloads browscap file once a week



Automatic Updates
-----------------

Download latest version of the browscap data by executing the builtin management command:::

 $ python manage.py download_browscap \
 --url http://browsers.garykeith.com/stream.asp?BrowsCapCSV \
 --file-path /path/to/downloaded/browscap_file

You don't need to provide any options for this command. By default, latest CSV browscap file will be downloaded
and saved to `settings.PYBROWSCAP_FILE_PATH`. Don't forget to set your `settings.PYBROWSCAP_RELOAD = True`.
For convenience execute the command via cron automatically once a week:::

 5 8 * * 6 python manage.py download_browscap



Example
-------

::

 def standard_view(request):
     if request.browser is not None and request.browser.is_crawler():
         # do something
     else:
         # do something else



Tests
-----

**Tested on evnironment**

- Xubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS precise 64-bit
- python 2.7.3
- python unitest
- browscap_14_05_2012.csv from Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:20 -0000

**Running tests**

To run the tests, execute one of the following commands:::

 $ python setup.py test
 $ make test


Author
------

| char0n (Vladimir Gorej, CodeScale)
| email: gorej@codescale.net
| web: http://www.codescale.net


References
----------

- http://github.com/CodeScaleInc/django-pybrowscap
- http://browsers.garykeith.com/
- http://php.net/get_browser
- http://www.codescale.net/en/community#django-pybrowscap