WURFL Integration
Hydrolix provides automatic WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource FiLe) integration. Supply a ScientiaMobile license key and a User-Agent
string in your data to automatically decorate table rows during ingest with over 600 WURFL device capabilities.
For more information about WURFL and ScientiaMobile, read our blog article . This feature was introduced in Hydrolix version 4.6.5.
WURFL integration is provided via Hydrolix's Auto Values system and a few extra settings in the Transform.
Specify Settings
Add a "wurfl"
section to the settings
section of each transform where you’ll be ingesting WURFL data. Within that section, add these configuration options:
Name | Description |
---|---|
enabled | Enables the ScientiaMobile WURFL integration. |
update_url | Specifies your ScientiaMobile-provided update URL. This included device lookup data and your license. |
header_mapping | Tells Hydrolix which key in your data specifies the User-Agent to facilitate device lookup. |
For example, in your transform:
"settings": {
# <your other settings here>
"wurfl": {
"enabled": true,
"update_url": "https://data.scientiamobile.com/{YOUR-SCIENTIAMOBILE-LICENSE-KEY-HERE}/wurfl.zip",
"header_mapping": {
"User-Agent": "user_agent"
}
}
}
The above configuration does the following:
- Ensures that WURFL is enabled.
- Configures the
update_url
to point to your licensed WURFL definition. - Sets the
header_mapping
key to be a map of HTTP headers that WURFL will use for classification.
Include Fields
Provide a mapping in your transform schema for each field you want to include in your Hydrolix table. Here’s an example for the field "physical_screen_width"
.
{
"name": "physical_screen_width",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"index": true,
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "physical_screen_width"
}
}
}
Notes
If your results are partially decorated, check your ScientiaMobile license level. Some fields are only available with Premium plans from ScientiaMobile.
Initially, undecorated rows are recorded until the ScientiaMobile libraries has completely loaded. This preserves Hydrolix's throughput even if the WURFL capabilities are not yet ready to use.
Example
Assuming you have simple CSV-formatted data including just a timestamp and the contents of a User-Agent header:
1698438520,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
1698438522,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SM-S901U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36"
1698438524,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)"
1698438527,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; Redmi Note 9 Pro) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36"
1698438529,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; DE2118) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36"
1698438530,"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone12,1; U; CPU iPhone OS 13_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/602.1"
1698438534,"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
1698438536,"Mozilla/5.0 (Apple-iPhone7C2/1202.466; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3"
1698438537,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 10.0; Android 6.0.1; Microsoft; RM-1152) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15254"
1698438538,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Lenovo YT-J706X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.45 Safari/537.36"
1698438541,"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SGP771 Build/32.2.A.0.253; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/52.0.2743.98 Safari/537.36"
1698438543,"Roku4640X/DVP-7.70 (297.70E04154A)"
1698438546,"Mozilla/5.0 (PlayStation; PlayStation 5/2.26) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Safari/605.1.15"
The transform below will automatically use WURFL and the user_agent
field to automatically decorate new fields in your tables with device information from ScientiaMobile's list of WURFL device capabilities:
{
"name": "wurfl-test-transform-csv",
"type": "csv",
"settings": {
"wurfl": {
"enabled": true,
"update_url": "https://data.scientiamobile.com/{YOUR-SCIENTIAMOBILE-LICENSE-KEY-HERE}/wurfl.zip",
"header_mapping": {
"User-Agent": "user_agent"
}
},
"output_columns": [
{
"name": "ts",
"datatype": {
"type": "epoch",
"index": false,
"primary": true,
"source": {
"from_input_index": 0
},
"format": "seconds",
"resolution": "second"
}
},
{
"name": "user_agent",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_input_index": 1
}
}
},
{
"name": "form_factor",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "form_factor"
}
}
},
{
"name": "advertised_device_os",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "advertised_device_os"
}
}
},
{
"name": "advertised_device_os_version",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "advertised_device_os_version"
}
}
},
{
"name": "av1_hardware_decode_level",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "av1_hardware_decode_level"
}
}
},
{
"name": "resolution_width",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "resolution_width"
}
}
},
{
"name": "resolution_height",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "resolution_height"
}
}
},
{
"name": "chipset",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "chipset"
}
}
},
{
"name": "ram",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "ram"
}
}
},
{
"name": "gpu_model",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "gpu_model"
}
}
},
{
"name": "is_connected_tv",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "is_connected_tv"
}
}
},
{
"name": "is_ott",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "is_ott"
}
}
},
{
"name": "release_msrp",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "release_msrp"
}
}
},
{
"name": "release_date",
"datatype": {
"type": "string",
"source": {
"from_automatic_value": "release_date"
}
}
}
]
}
}
The resulting rows in your Hydrolix table will contain information like this:
{
"advertised_device_os": "Android",
"advertised_device_os_version": "11",
"av1_hardware_decode_level": "-1",
"chipset": "Helio G90T",
"form_factor": "Tablet",
"gpu_model": "ARM Mali G76 3EEMC4",
"is_connected_tv": "false",
"is_ott": "false",
"ram": "8GB",
"release_date": "2021_june",
"release_msrp": "548",
"resolution_height": "1200",
"resolution_width": "2000",
"ts": "2023-10-27 20:38:58",
"user_agent": "Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Lenovo YT-J706X) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/96.0.4664.45 Safari\/537.36"
},
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