fakeua

Python module made as a wrapper of fake-useragent.

Rationale:

fake-useragent package (https://github.com/hellysmile/fake-useragent) have an API which is brittle and too verbose for cases when you just want predictability and the work done without unnecesary headaches.

Installation

Install with uv

uv add fakeua

Usage

FakeUA can be used from the shell too.

fakeua -h

Or importing its functions.

In [1]: import fakeua

# Update useragent DB in a json file (~/.fakeua_databrowsers.json)
In [2]: fakeua.update_useragent_db()
Out[2]: True

In [3]: fakeua.get_useragent_list()
Out[3]: 
['Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0',
 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0',
 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0',
 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0',
 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0']

In [4]: fakeua.load_useragent_db()                                                 
Out[4]: ...
# It throws a dict containing the browsers scraped by fake-useragent.

In [5]: fakeua.get_random_ua()
Out[5]: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0'