Detect if is a mobile Bot

[henriqueoliveira]

Hi, thanks for this awesome library, my issue is with google bot, it has a Desktop and a Mobile bot, and the library is not recognizing Googlebot-mobile version, my site makes a redirection when is mobile to another subdomain, like m.site.com, and we all want google to index it property. So when isBot() == true, the isMobile() is always false, and thats a problem.

Thanks in advance.

[henriqueoliveira]

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/references/googlebot

[sgiehl]

Do you also need the detection if it is a bot? Otherwise maybe have a look at https://github.com/piwik/device-detector/blob/master/DeviceDetector.php#L275

[henriqueoliveira]

Cooooll, it worked!!!

But it will be nice if both methods could work together.

thank you!

[marcosag]

I agree with @henriqueoliveira, in my case it's necessary to detect mobile bots. At the moment i've solved this by creating two instances of DeviceDetector and using properly the skipBotDetection method.

[bozorkom]

Any news? How to solve this problem ?

[sanchezzzhak]

hi, we are not considering the possibility yet. the following code may help you:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

use DeviceDetector\DeviceDetector;
use DeviceDetector\ClientHints;
use DeviceDetector\Parser\Device\AbstractDeviceParser;


AbstractDeviceParser::setVersionTruncation(AbstractDeviceParser::VERSION_TRUNCATION_NONE);

$userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$clientHints = ClientHints::factory($_SERVER);
$dd = new DeviceDetector($userAgent, $clientHints);
$dd->parse();
if ($dd->isBot()) {
    $botInfo = $dd->getBot();
    $isBotBrowser = '' !== $clientHints->getArchitecture();
    $isBotMobile = $clientHints->isMobile();
    if (!$isBotMobile && preg_match('~(?:Android|-Mobile/|Mobile Safari/)~i', $userAgent)) {
        $isBotMobile = true;
    }
} else {
    $clientInfo = $dd->getClient();
    $osInfo = $dd->getOs();
    $device = $dd->getDeviceName();
    $brand = $dd->getBrandName();
    $model = $dd->getModel();
}