I’ve created my first ever API. I often work with and develop applications around APIs from other providers such as the Twitter API or one of the many APIs provided by Google but this is my first time creating an API that others can use.

Built using CodeIgniter, the API has a simple purpose, to take in a browser agent id string and return whether it thinks the browser agent is a bot or a regular web browser such as Internet Explorer being used by a person browsing the web.

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