Welcome to WeeklyRandom, a blog series in which I challenge myself to explore a random GitHub repository starred by me every week.
The entry for week 1 should have been published last week, but life Red Dead Redemption 2 thwarted my plans. 🤠
Never mind! Let's find out which repo I can explore this week.
🥁
node index.js vintagesucks
https://github.com/sindresorhus/ua-string
ua-string by Sindre Sorhus. This shouldn't take long. The description of the repo is as follows:
Get the user agent of a recent Chrome version to pretend to be a browser in network requests
Okay. Let's try a request to whatismybrowser.com without ua-string:
// index.js
const got = require('got');
const HTMLParser = require('fast-html-parser');
(async () => {
try {
got('https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/parse/?analyse-my-user-agent=yes')
.then((res) =>
HTMLParser.parse(res.body).querySelector('.useragent')
)
.then((result) =>
console.log(result.childNodes[0].rawText)
);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error.response.body);
}
})();
Let's run it:
node index.js
got/9.2.2 (https://github.com/sindresorhus/got)
Since I used got (created by Sindre, too 👋) to make the request, the reported user agent is got.
Let's try ua-string now.
npm install ua-string
The script, now using ua-string:
const got = require('got');
const uaString = require('ua-string');
const HTMLParser = require('fast-html-parser');
(async () => {
try {
got('https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/parse/?analyse-my-user-agent=yes', {
headers: {
'user-agent': uaString
}
})
.then((res) =>
HTMLParser.parse(res.body).querySelector('.useragent')
)
.then((result) =>
console.log(result.childNodes[0].rawText)
);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error.response.body);
}
})();
Here we go:
node index.js
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_13\_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.75 Safari/537.36
Perfect. 🎉
You can find the complete code on GitHub at vintagesucks/weeklyrandom. Pull requests with improvements are very welcome!
Until next week, when I'll check out my next WeeklyRandom repository.
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