load_user_agent_strings

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

Loads user-agent strings for popular web browsers.

This function retrieves 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 return a flattened list of all user-agent strings; defaults to False.

  • update (bool) – Whether to update the backup data of user-agent strings; defaults to False.

  • verbose (bool | int) – Whether to print relevant information in the console; defaults to False.

Returns:

Dictionary or list of user-agent strings, depending on the flattened parameter.

Return type:

dict | list

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.ops import load_user_agent_strings
>>> uas = load_user_agent_strings()
>>> type(uas)
dict
>>> list(uas.keys())
['Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Safari', 'Edge', 'Internet Explorer', 'Opera']
>>> type(uas['Chrome'])
list
>>> uas['Chrome'][0]
'Chrome/15.0.860.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, li...
>>> uas_list = load_user_agent_strings(shuffled=True, flattened=True)
>>> type(uas_list)
list
>>> uas_list[0]  # a random one
'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome...

Note

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