feat: add Brave browser support via clientHints (#597)

src/constants.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export const BROWSER_ALIASES_MAP = {
   BaiduSpider: 'baiduspider',
   Bada: 'bada',
   BingCrawler: 'bingcrawler',
+  Brave: 'brave',
   BlackBerry: 'blackberry',
   'ChatGPT-User': 'chatgpt_user',
   Chrome: 'chrome',
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ export const BROWSER_MAP = {
   bada: 'Bada',
   bingcrawler: 'BingCrawler',
   blackberry: 'BlackBerry',
+  brave: 'Brave',
   chatgpt_user: 'ChatGPT-User',
   chrome: 'Chrome',
   claudebot: 'ClaudeBot',

src/parser-browsers.js

@@ -1037,6 +1037,28 @@ const browsersList = [
       return browser;
     },
   },
+  /* Brave Browser */
+  {
+    test(parser) {
+      // Check Client Hints brands for Brave
+      return parser.hasBrand('Brave');
+    },
+    describe(ua, parser) {
+      const browser = {
+        name: 'Brave',
+      };
+
+      if (parser) {
+        const hintsVersion = parser.getBrandVersion('Brave');
+        if (hintsVersion) {
+          browser.version = hintsVersion;
+          return browser;
+        }
+      }
+
+      return browser;
+    },
+  },
   {
     test: [/chromium/i],
     describe(ua) {

test/unit/parser.js

@@ -383,3 +383,33 @@ test('Parser with Edge client hints', (t) => {
   t.true(p.hasBrand('Chromium'));
   t.is(p.getBrandVersion('Microsoft Edge'), '131');
 });
+
+const BRAVE_HINTS = {
+  brands: [
+    { brand: 'Brave', version: '144' },
+    { brand: 'Chromium', version: '131' },
+    { brand: 'Not_A Brand', version: '24' },
+  ],
+  mobile: false,
+  platform: 'Windows',
+  platformVersion: '15.0.0',
+};
+
+const BRAVE_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+
+test('Parser detects Brave from client hints brands', (t) => {
+  const p = new Parser(BRAVE_UA, false, BRAVE_HINTS);
+  t.is(p.getBrowserName(), 'Brave');
+  t.is(p.getBrowserVersion(), '144');
+});
+
+test('Parser.hasBrand detects Brave', (t) => {
+  const p = new Parser(BRAVE_UA, false, BRAVE_HINTS);
+  t.true(p.hasBrand('Brave'));
+  t.true(p.hasBrand('brave'));
+});
+
+test('Parser.getBrandVersion returns version for Brave', (t) => {
+  const p = new Parser(BRAVE_UA, false, BRAVE_HINTS);
+  t.is(p.getBrandVersion('Brave'), '144');
+});