get_user_agent_string

pyhelpers.ops.get_user_agent_string(fancy=None, **kwargs)[source]

Get a random user-agent string of a certain browser.

Parameters:

fancy – name of a preferred browser, defaults to None; options include 'Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Safari', 'Edge', 'Internet Explorer' and 'Opera'; if fancy=None, the function returns a user-agent string of a randomly-selected browser among all the available options
kwargs – [optional] parameters of the function pyhelpers.ops.get_user_agent_strings()

Type:

fancy: None | str

Returns:

a user-agent string of a certain browser

Return type:

str

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.ops import get_user_agent_string

>>> # Get a random user-agent string
>>> uas_0 = get_user_agent_string()
>>> uas_0
'Opera/7.01 (Windows 98; U)  [en]'

>>> # Get a random Chrome user-agent string
>>> uas_1 = get_user_agent_string(fancy='Chrome')
>>> uas_1
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.9...

Note

In the above examples, the returned user-agent string is random and may be different every time of running the function.