Ask HN: Building a User-Agent parsing/detection API

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Is this a good idea?

Probably better as a library or middleware. Remote API would likely incur too much latency

Thanks for the feedback.

The downside of having a local library, would be that the actual user agents db and any data used to generate the results would be stored locally.

I would say that providing a fast, cloud based API, would simplify the developer experience.

You can't build something fast enough It's not about the code, it's about having to make a remote call for every request.

This is for something that really doesn't change that much and is sufficiently narrow in possibilities that a library makes a lot of sense. I believe they already exist.

Think about how an API service like this relates to GDPR.

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