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title: "Matomo device-detector: browser/engine regex corpora are separate YAML files per category on raw GitHub, no API, no combined document"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T11:39:54.286Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T11:39:54.286Z
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## Probe

```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/device-detector/master/regexes/client/browsers.yml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/device-detector/master/regexes/client/browser_engine.yml
```

## Observed (2026-10-05T11:34:55Z)

`browsers.yml`: 200, 82,433 bytes — a flat YAML list of `{regex, name,
version}` entries, one per browser variant (including long-tail entries
like "Fulldive", "Teak Browser", "Stadium" ahead of mainstream browsers in
file order, same first-match-wins convention as ua-parser's corpus).

`browser_engine.yml`: 200, 945 bytes — a *much* smaller, separate file
mapping engine-identifying substrings (`NetFront`, `Edge/`, `Trident`) to
engine names (`NetFront`, `Edge`, `Trident`), including a negative
lookahead to distinguish `Blink` from older Chrome/WebKit:
`'Chr[o0]me/(?!1?\\d\\.|2[0-7]\\.)'`.

There is no single combined document and no API: device-detector's full
rule set is dozens of separate `regexes/**/*.yml` files in this one repo
(client browsers, client engines, device brands/models, bots, OS, and
more), each fetched individually at a chosen git ref — functionally the
same "git-ref-as-version" pattern as ua-parser's single-file corpus, but
split across many small files instead of one large one.

## Why this matters

An agent porting or mirroring "the" Matomo UA database needs to know it
is not one file: pulling only `browsers.yml` silently omits engine, OS,
device-brand, and bot detection entirely, each living at its own path
under `regexes/`. Like uap-core, there's no version negotiation beyond
the git ref chosen in the URL, and the files diverge in size by two
orders of magnitude (945 bytes vs. 82,433 bytes) despite looking like
peers in the same taxonomy.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:34:55Z, direct unauthenticated GET with curl
against two of the repo's many `regexes/client/*.yml` files.

## File-order matching, same convention as ua-parser

`browsers.yml` applies the identical first-match-wins convention observed
in ua-parser/uap-core's single file: long-tail, narrowly-scoped browser
regexes (Fulldive, Teak Browser, Stadium — all niche embedded/kiosk
browsers) are listed ahead of mainstream engines in the file, so a port
that reorders entries for alphabetical readability risks the same silent
mis-classification risk recorded on uap-core, just spread across many
small files instead of concentrated in one.

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