How to access {userAgent} or "browser alias" values from within a test?

[anon35900133]

Hi there,

The Take Screenshot documentation page lists a bunch of interesting variables such as {testIndex}, {userAgent}, {screenshotIndex}, and {quarantineAttempt} that are used as a default when the path is not specified. Is there any way to access these values from within a test?

Failing that, is there any way to determine the browser alias from within a test. For example if I used testcafe.createRunner and specified runner.browsers['safari','chrome'], I'd like to know which test instance corresponds to safari and which corresponds to chrome.

Thanks!
Dave

[anon493717]

Hi Dave,

You can get navigator.userAgent from the browser via ClientFunction. Optionally you can use a module to parse an user agent string, for example: ua-parser-js.

import { ClientFunction } from 'testcafe';
import uaParser from 'ua-parser-js';

fixture `get ua`
    .page `http://exapmle.com`;

const getUA = ClientFunction(() => navigator.userAgent);

test('get ua', async t => {
    const ua = await getUA();

    console.log(uaParser(ua).browser.name);
});

Meanwhile, we have Implement t.browserInfo proposal in our repository.