Identify www bots and mobile devices

Posted by Dan Sosedoff on March 12, 2009

Need to identify web crawlers and mobile devices with your web-app ? Here is the list of couple regular expressions you can use (most common values):

Mobile Devices:

/(blackberry|motorokr|motorola|sony|windows ce|240x320|176x220|palm|mobile|iphone|ipod|symbian|nokia|samsung|midp)/i

Web Spyders:

/(google|yahoo|baidu|bot|webalta|archiver|crawler|spyder)/i