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How to use Python requests to fake a browser visit a.k.a and generate User Agent?
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I have written a script to extract links from websites which works fine
This is the source Code
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Web=requests.get("https://www.google.com/")
soup=BeautifulSoup(Web.text,'lxml')
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
print(link['href'])
##Out put
https://www.google.com.sa/imghp?hl=ar&tab=wi
https://maps.google.com.sa/maps?hl=ar&tab=wl
https://www.youtube.com/?gl=SA&tab=w1
https://news.google.com/?tab=wn
https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm
https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo
https://calendar.google.com/calendar?tab=wc
https://www.google.com.sa/intl/ar/about/products?tab=wh
http://www.google.com.sa/history/optout?hl=ar
/preferences?hl=ar
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=ar&passive=true&continue=https://www.google.com/&ec=GAZAAQ
/search?safe=strict&ie=UTF-8&q=%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81&oi=ddle&ct=174786979&hl=ar&kgmid=/m/0562zv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq8feoiqDwAhUK8BQKHc7UD7oQPQgD
/advanced_search?hl=ar-SA&authuser=0
https://www.google.com/setprefs?sig=0_mwAqJUgnrqSouOmGk0UvVz7GgkY%3D&hl=en&source=homepage&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq8feoiqDwAhUK8BQKHc7UD7oQ2ZgBCAU
/intl/ar/ads/
http://www.google.com/intl/ar/services/
/intl/ar/about.html
https://www.google.com/setprefdomain?prefdom=SA&prev=https://www.google.com.sa/&sig=K_e_0jdE_IjI-G5o1qMYziPpQwHgs%3D
/intl/ar/policies/privacy/
/intl/ar/policies/terms/
But the problem is that when I change the website to https://www.jarir.com/, it will not work
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Web=requests.get("https://www.jarir.com/")
soup=BeautifulSoup(Web.text,'lxml')
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
print(link['href'])
#out put
#
The out put will be #
I suggest adding a random header function to avoid the website detecting python-requests as the browser/agent. The code below returns all of the links as requested.
Notice the randomization of the headers and how this code uses the headers parameter in the requests.get method.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from random import choice
desktop_agents = [
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/602.2.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.1 Safari/602.2.14',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.98 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.98 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0']
def random_headers():
return {'User-Agent': choice(desktop_agents),
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'}
Web=requests.get("https://www.jarir.com", headers=random_headers())
soup=BeautifulSoup(Web.text,'lxml')
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
print(link['href'])
The site is blocked for Python Bots:
<h1>Access denied</h1>
<p>This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.</p>
You can try adding an user agent to your code, like below:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Safari/537.36'}
Web=requests.get("https://www.jarir.com/", headers=headers)
soup=BeautifulSoup(Web.text)
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
print(link['href'])
The output is something like:
https://www.jarir.com/wishlist/
https://www.jarir.com/sales/order/history/
https://www.jarir.com/afs/
https://www.jarir.com/contacts/
tel:+966920000089
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6300021106230902110a114d000c0e
https://www.jarir.com/faq/
https://www.jarir.com/warranty_policy/
https://www.jarir.com/return_exchange/
https://www.jarir.com/contacts/
https://www.jarir.com/terms-of-service/
https://www.jarir.com/privacy-policy/
https://www.jarir.com/storelocator/
This code is to post a form data
headers = {
'authority': 'ec.ef.com.cn',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36',
'accept': '*/*',
'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9,ru-RU;q=0.8,ru;q=0.7,uk;q=0.6,en-GB;q=0.5',
}
s = requests.Session()
response = s.post(url, headers = headers)
which seems different to what Chrome does
I understand :authority is a kind of HTTP/2 Headers. How do I send it with Python requests?
You could use hyper.contrib.HTTP20Adapter, and set the mount(),like:
from hyper.contrib import HTTP20Adapter
import requests
def getHeaders():
headers = {
":authority": "xxx",
":method": "POST",
":path": "/login/secure.ashx",
":scheme": "https",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36",
"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"
}
return headers
sessions=requests.session()
sessions.mount('https://xxxx.com', HTTP20Adapter())
r=sessions.post(url_search,data=playload,headers=getHeaders())
Refer to a Chinese blog
I am trying to fake user agents as well as rotate them in Python.
I found a tutorial online about how to do this with Scrapy using scrapy-useragents package.
I scrape the webpage, https://www.whatsmyua.info/, in order to check my user agent to see if it is different then mine and if it rotates. Is it different then my actual user agent but it does not rotate it returns the same user agent each time, and I cannot figure out what is going wrong.
settings.py
BOT_NAME = 'scrapy_javascript'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['scrapy_javascript.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'scrapy_javascript.spiders'
# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent
#USER_AGENT = 'scrapy_javascript (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'
# Obey robots.txt rules
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy_splash.SplashCookiesMiddleware': 723,
'scrapy_splash.SplashMiddleware': 725,
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware': 810,
}
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# USER AGENT
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware': None,
'scrapy_useragents.downloadermiddlewares.useragents.UserAgentsMiddleware': 500,
}
USER_AGENTS = [
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) '
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/57.0.2987.110 '
'Safari/537.36'), # chrome
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) '
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/61.0.3163.79 '
'Safari/537.36'), # chrome
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) '
'Gecko/20100101 '
'Firefox/55.0'), # firefox
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) '
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/61.0.3163.91 '
'Safari/537.36'), # chrome
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) '
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/62.0.3202.89 '
'Safari/537.36'), # chrome
('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) '
'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/63.0.3239.108 '
'Safari/537.36'), # chrome
]
SPLASH_URL = 'http://199.89.192.74:8050'
DUPEFILTER_CLASS = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareDupeFilter'
HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareFSCacheStorage'
Here you can find an API returning the most common user-agents as JSON :
http://51.158.74.109/useragents/?format=json
I have used this tool which will keep your list of user-agents always updated with most recent and most used user-agents : https://pypi.org/project/shadow-useragent/
from shadow_useragent import ShadowUserAgent
shadow_useragent = ShadowUserAgent()
print(shadow_useragent.firefox)
# Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0
print(shadow_useragent.chrome)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36
print(shadow_useragent.safari)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
print(shadow_useragent.edge)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134
print(shadow_useragent.ie)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
print(shadow_useragent.android)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.3; en-us; SM-N900T Build/JSS15J) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30
print(shadow_useragent.ipad)
# Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
print(shadow_useragent.random)
# Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
print(shadow_useragent.random_nomobile)
# Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36
# and the best one, random via real world browser usage statistic
print(ua.random)
# Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36
# if you want to excluse mobiles (some websites will display different pages)
print(shadow_useragent.random_nomobile)
# Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36
Figured it out by creating csv file with all my url's and they are paired with IP's and user agents and so every time I access the webpage I use those IP's and user agents. Then I had to override my spalsh_url in my spider that way my splash_url would be equal to the proxy I am using at that moment.
SplashSpider.py
import csv
from scrapy.spiders import Spider
from scrapy_splash import SplashRequest
from ..items import GameItem
# process the csv file so the url + ip address + useragent pairs are the same as defined in the file
# returns a list of dictionaries, example:
# [ {'url': 'http://www.starcitygames.com/catalog/category/Rivals%20of%20Ixalan',
# 'ip': 'http://204.152.114.244:8050',
# 'ua': "Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9320; en-GB) AppleWebKit/534.11"},
# ...
# ]
def process_csv(csv_file):
data = []
reader = csv.reader(csv_file)
next(reader)
for fields in reader:
if fields[0] != "":
url = fields[0]
else:
continue # skip the whole row if the url column is empty
if fields[1] != "":
ip = "http://" + fields[1] + ":8050" # adding http and port because this is the needed scheme
if fields[2] != "":
useragent = fields[2]
data.append({"url": url, "ip": ip, "ua": useragent})
return data
class MySpider(Spider):
name = 'splash_spider' # Name of Spider
# notice that we don't need to define start_urls
# just make sure to get all the urls you want to scrape inside start_requests function
# getting all the url + ip address + useragent pairs then request them
def start_requests(self):
# get the file path of the csv file that contains the pairs from the settings.py
with open(self.settings["PROXY_CSV_FILE"], mode="r") as csv_file:
# requests is a list of dictionaries like this -> {url: str, ua: str, ip: str}
requests = process_csv(csv_file)
for req in requests:
# no need to create custom middlewares
# just pass useragent using the headers param, and pass proxy using the meta param
yield SplashRequest(url=req["url"], callback=self.parse, args={"wait": 3},
headers={"User-Agent": req["ua"]},
splash_url = req["ip"],
)
settings.py
BOT_NAME = 'scrapy_javascript'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['scrapy_javascript.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'scrapy_javascript.spiders'
# Obey robots.txt rules
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False
# The path of the csv file that contains the pairs
PROXY_CSV_FILE = "proxies.csv"
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy_splash.SplashCookiesMiddleware': 723,
'scrapy_splash.SplashMiddleware': 725,
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware': 810,
}
#SPLASH_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8050'
#SPLASH_URL = 'http://localhost:8050'
DUPEFILTER_CLASS = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareDupeFilter'
HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareFSCacheStorage'
# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)
#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 16
# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)
# See https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay
# See also autothrottle settings and docs
#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 60
Check out https://www.useragents.me/. It is an auto-updating list of the latest useragents available in JSON format (auto-updating so, even if the site is neglected, the data shouldn't go stale).
Conveniently they even offer a python coded useragent rotator function directly on the site (with useragents current as of November 4, 2022):
import random
def random_ua(k=1):
# returns a random useragent from the latest user agents strings list, weighted
# according to observed prevalance
ua_pct = {"ua": {"0": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "1": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0", "2": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "3": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0", "4": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "5": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0", "6": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "7": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "8": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "9": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.0 Safari/605.1.15", "10": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0", "11": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0", "12": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0", "13": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0", "14": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}, "pct": {"0": 28.8, "1": 13.28, "2": 10.98, "3": 8.55, "4": 6.25, "5": 5.56, "6": 4.53, "7": 4.27, "8": 3.57, "9": 2.93, "10": 2.99, "11": 2.55, "12": 2.44, "13": 1.7, "14": 1.59}}
return random.choices(list(ua_pct['ua'].values()), list(ua_pct['pct'].values()), k=k)
# usage
random_ua() # optional k = number of useragents to return
I am trying to make a scan of the HTML in 2 requests.
at the first one, it's working but when I am trying to use another one,
The HTML I am trying to locate are not visible its getting it wrong.
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'}
page = requests.get('https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ol/B00DZKQSRQ/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=new, headers=headers)
newHeader = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.82 Safari/537.36'}
pagePrice = requests.get('https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ol/B01EQJU8AW/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=new',headers=newHeader)
The first request works fine and gets me the good HTML.
The second request gives bad HTML.
I saw this package, but not success :
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fake-useragent
And I saw this topic not unaswered :
Double user-agent tag, "user-agent: user-agent: Mozilla/"
Thank you very much!
I'm crawling some web-pages and parsing through some data on them, but one of the sites seems to be blocking my requests. The version of the code using Python 3 with urllib.requests works fine. My problem is that I need to use Python 2.7, and I can't get a response using urllib2
Shouldn't these requests be identical?
Python 3 version:
def fetch_title(url):
req = urllib.request.Request(
url,
data=None,
headers={
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36'
}
)
html = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().encode('unicode-escape').decode('ascii')
return html
Python 2.7 version:
import urllib2
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = [(
'User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36'
)]
response = opener.open('http://website.com')
print response.read()
The following code should work, essentially with python 2.7 you can create a dictionary with your desired headers and format your request in a way that it will work properly with urllib2.urlopen using urllib2.Request.
import urllib2
def fetch_title(url):
my_headers = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36"
}
return urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url, headers=my_headers)).read()