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Life & fun · July 10, 2014

WURFL

Super simple device detection for your website

WURFL launched on July 10, 2014 with 57 votes, #1,117 of 2,263 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

WURFL.js is JavaScript that detects device models of smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and game consoles accessing your website. Only WURFL.js Basic, Standard, and Pro services will detect iPhone and iPad models. The free WURFL.js Lite will only return generic iPhone and iPad results. Important Note: More recent iPads will impersonate a desktop browser through the User-Agent string. WURFL.js Basic, Standard and Pro services will still be able to detect the device as an iPad (thanks to sophisticated additional logic), and return information about the specific model. The free version (WURFL.js Lite) will handle those devices as desktop browser. To use the free WURFL.js Lite, all you need to do…from web.wurfl.io

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