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Python Web Scraping Cookbook
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Python Web Scraping Cookbook

by Lazar Telebak, Michael Heydt, Mei Lu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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While it is possible to set any content you want in the User-Agent header, some web servers will inspect the User-Agent header and make decisions on how to respond based upon the content. A common example of this is using the header to identify mobile devices to provide a mobile presentation.

But some sites also only allow access to content to specific User-Agent values. Setting your own value could have the effect of having the web server not respond or return other errors, such as unauthorized. So when you use this technique, make sure to check it will work.

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