How to get user agent using swift without using the deprecated WebView

Question

I need to get the user agent. I used to get it using UIWebView but it\'s deprecated now.

let userAgent = UIWebView().stringByEvaluatingJavaScript(from: \"naviga         


        

Answer 1

Use WebKit instead.

import WebKit

let webView = WKWebView()
webView.evaluateJavaScript("navigator.userAgent") { (result, error) in
    print(result as! String)
}

// Output 
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 13_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148