Urlretrieve and User-Agent? - Python

Question

I\'m using urlretrieve from the urllib module.

I cannot seem to find how to add a User-Agent description to my requests.

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Is it possible with urlretrieve? o

Answer 1

You can use URLopener or FancyURLopener classes. The 'version' argument specifies the user agent of the opener object.

opener = FancyURLopener({}) 
opener.version = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.69 Safari/537.36'
opener.retrieve('http://example.com', 'index.html')