GetUserAgent - Random/Fake/Spoof Common User Agents

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GetUserAgent - Random/Fake/Spoof Common User Agents

Intro

This is just a simple python module to produce a random, commonly used user agents each time. It contains 11 lists for a total of 1,100 user agents. You can choose and combine lists depending on your needs.

Installation

Assumes you have python3 installed.

pip install getuseragent

Features

Get a random user agent of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, IE, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Desktop, Mobile, Bots, or any combination
User-Agents from 100 of the most commonly used
Add requests handler prefix
Spoofed or fake user agents
Combine multiple user agent lists

Use Cases

Check that your website statistics are identifying browsers correctly
Handle bots visiting your website
Making a security system to detect fake user agents?

Code Examples

Initialisation

from getuseragent import UserAgent

useragent = UserAgent()

theuseragent = useragent.Random()
print(theuseragent)

Example output:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148

User-Agents Available

Each of the following lists contains 100 commonly used user agents for that software/device/system.

# Firefox
useragent = UserAgent("firefox")

# Chrome
useragent = UserAgent("chrome")

# Safari
useragent = UserAgent("safari")

# Internet Explorer (IE)
useragent = UserAgent("ie")

# Edge
useragent = UserAgent("edge")

# iOS
useragent = UserAgent("ios")

# Android
useragent = UserAgent("android")

# Windows
useragent = UserAgent("windows")

# Mac
useragent = UserAgent("mac")

# Linux
useragent = UserAgent("linux")

Sets including multiple lists:

# Desktop (Windows + Mac + Linux)
useragent = UserAgent("desktop")

# Mobile (iOS + Android)
useragent = UserAgent("mobile")

# All (Everything except bots)
useragent = UserAgent()
# or
useragent = UserAgent("all")

Bots like web crawlers:

# Bots
useragent = UserAgent("bots")

Combination

You can combine lists and sets together. Use the + sign between list names. Duplicate lists will automatically be removed so there's only 1 of each list at most.

Examples:

# Chrome and Edge and iOS
useragent = UserAgent("chrome+edge+ios")

# Mobile + Firefox
useragent = UserAgent("mobile+firefox")

# All + Bots
useragent = UserAgent("all+bots")

# Print a random user agent based on your selection:
print(useragent.Random())

Print Random User Agent From List

You can print a single random user agent like so:

# Initialise
useragent = UserAgent()

# Get one random user agent
ua = useragent.Random()

# Print user agent
print(ua)

Performance / Limiting

You can limit the total amount of user agents in the list to save memory. The default is no limit, and each list has 100 commonly used user agents.

# Using 3 lists would make the total available user agents 300
useragent = UserAgent("chrome+firefox+ios")

# You can limit the total to, for example, 50:
# (List is randomised before truncating)
useragent = UserAgent("chrome+firefox+ios", total=50)

# You can limit individual lists
# This would give 10 firefox user agents + 10 safari user agents
# The total amount of user agents available would be 20
useragent = UserAgent("firefox+safari", limit=10)

# You can combine limit and total
# This would get 10 user agents for both android and ie, for 20 user agents
# The list would be randomised, then reduced to 15 total available user agents
useragent = UserAgent("android+ie", limit=10, total=15)

# Print a random user agent
print(useragent.Random())

Requests Handler

You can enable the option to return your user agents ready to be used with the requests module.

# Example
import requests
from getuseragent import UserAgent

myuseragent = UserAgent("all", requestsPrefix=True).Random()

# Example Output:
# --
# {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0'}

page = requests.get("https://google.com", headers=myuseragent)

To Do

Error handling
Retrieve updated, most popular user-agents from the internet
Better performance
Hot-swappable lists
Custom list(s)
Command line arguments
Improve Readme

Changes

0.0.7 (June 9th, 2021)

1. Added individual list limits, which can be used when using one or multiple lists.
For example, if you used:

UserAgent("firefox+ios", limit=5)

It would limit each list to 5 user agents, and two lists, bringing the total user agents 10.

2. Checks if user agent files exist.
3. Checks if user list empty in Random()

0.0.2 - 0.0.6

Fixed package errors, spelling mistakes

0.0.1

Initial release

kr4toos19/getuseragent