load_user_agent_strings

pyhelpers.ops.load_user_agent_strings(shuffled=False, flattened=False, update=False, verbose=False)

Load user-agent strings of popular browsers.

The current version collects a partially comprehensive list of user-agent strings for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer and Opera.

Parameters

  • shuffled (bool) – whether to randomly shuffle the user-agent strings, defaults to False

  • flattened (bool) – whether to make a list of all available user-agent strings, defaults to False

  • update (bool) – whether to update the backup data of user-agent strings, defaults to False

  • verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console, defaults to False

Returns

a dictionary of user agent strings for popular browsers

Return type

dict or list

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.ops import load_user_agent_strings

>>> uas = load_user_agent_strings()

>>> list(uas.keys())
['Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Safari', 'Edge', 'Internet Explorer', 'Opera']
>>> type(uas['Chrome'])
list
>>> uas['Chrome'][0]
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/...

>>> uas_list = load_user_agent_strings(shuffled=True, flattened=True)
>>> type(uas_list)
list
>>> uas_list[0]  # a random one
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.792.0 Saf...

Note

The order of the elements in uas_list may be different every time we run the example as shuffled=True.