This action forms part of ThinkAutomation’s broader workflow automation software, enabling automated workflows to identify a user’s browser, operating system and device type from User-Agent data and use that information to control subsequent workflow actions.Extracts browser name, version & operating system information from a User Agent string.

Specify a user agent or %variable% in the Get Browser Info For User Agent entry.

You can the select variables to receive:

• Browser Name
• Version
• Operating System
• Is Mobile (true or false)
• Is Spider (true or false)

This Action is useful when receiving messages via the API – from web forms, or web requests. It allows you to obtain browser information for the user making the request.

For API received messages the originating user-agent is added to the Message Headers. You can extract this using the Set Variable action with the Extract Header Value operation and the Value set to User-Agent.

Use Browser Information in Automated Workflows

Browser and device information can be used to make web-based automations more context-aware. For example, ThinkAutomation can identify whether a request originated from a mobile device, determine the visitor’s browser and operating system, or detect whether the User-Agent belongs to a search engine spider.

When processing web forms, API requests or other web interactions, this information can be stored for reporting, used to apply different workflow rules or combined with other information about the request before determining the next action.