Fake request headers to reduce bot detection #263
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bachya
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May 21, 2022
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| # Use charset_normalizer to determine encoding that best matches the response content | ||
| # Several sites seem to specify the response encoding incorrectly, so we ignore it and use custom logic instead | ||
| # This is different from Response.text which does respect the encoding specified in the response first, | ||
| # before trying to determine one | ||
| results = from_bytes(r.content) | ||
| return str(results.best()) | ||
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| def fake_request_headers(): |
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For a future PR, why not make this a constant (since its contents are always the same)?
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No reason. One article recommended to rotate the user agent, which would have required a function, but I never got that far. It could be changed to a constant.
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Fixes #262