August 23, 2014

How to Set Your User-Agent using PyCurl

An unnamed CDN was blocking my sharing script because it wasn't in its whitelist of approved user agents. And it's a common one. What to do? Fake it, till you make it, to borrow a turn of phrase, like so:


curlObj.setOpt(pycurl.USER_AGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36')

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