Changing user agent on urllib2.urlopen

I answered a similar question a couple weeks ago. There is example code in that question, but basically you can do something like this: (Note the capitalization of User-Agent as of RFC 2616, section 14.43.) opener = urllib2.build_opener() opener.addheaders = [(‘User-Agent’, ‘Mozilla/5.0’)] response = opener.open(‘http://www.stackoverflow.com’)

Get operating system info

The code below could explain in its own right, how http://thismachine.info/ is able to show which operating system someone is using. What it does is that, it sniffs your core operating system model, for example windows nt 5.1 as my own. It then passes windows nt 5.1/i to Windows XP as the operating system. Using: … Read more

How to use curl to get a GET request exactly same as using Chrome?

If you need to set the user header string in the curl request, you can use the -H option to set user agent like: curl -H “user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.182 Safari/537.36” http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28760694/how-to-use-curl-to-get-a-get-request-exactly-same-as-using-chrome Updated user-agent form newest Chrome at 02-22-2021 Using a proxy tool like Charles Proxy really … Read more

Why do Chrome and IE put “Mozilla 5.0” in the User-Agent they send to the server? [duplicate]

See: user-agent-string-history It all goes back to browser sniffing and making sure that the browsers are not blocked from getting content they can support. From the above article: And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames. And Microsoft grew impatient, and did not wish to wait for … Read more

How to use Python requests to fake a browser visit a.k.a and generate User Agent?

Provide a User-Agent header: import requests url=”http://www.ichangtou.com/#company:data_000008.html” headers = {‘User-Agent’: ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36’} response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) print(response.content) FYI, here is a list of User-Agent strings for different browsers: List of all Browsers As a side note, there is a pretty useful third-party package called … Read more

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