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

I know this issue had been there for 7 years. And I reached this issue by trying to figure out how to change the User-Agent while using urlretrieve function.

To anyone who reached this issue by no luck, here is how I did:

    # proxy = ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://192.168.1.31:8888'})
    proxy = ProxyHandler({})
    opener = build_opener(proxy)
    opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_4) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1 Safari/603.1.30')]
    install_opener(opener)

    result = urlretrieve(url=file_url, filename=file_name)

The reason I added proxy is to monitor the traffic in Charles, and here is the traffic I got: