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Use our own default User-Agent #228

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benoit74 opened this issue Oct 23, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #229
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Use our own default User-Agent #228

benoit74 opened this issue Oct 23, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #229
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@benoit74
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By default, when no User-Agent is specified to zimit, no User-Agent is specified to browsertrix crawler and default one is hence used. Only a User-Agent suffix is passed (and hence appended by browsertrix) to

The problem with this is that:

  • we never know which User-Agent value is used in the end, it is not logged
  • we have too little control on this User-Agent, there is always a risk it might get broken at some point by a release

We think we should specify our own default User-Agent and pass it to browsertrix in all cases, to ensure reproducible / consistent behaviors.

This is also probably a mandatory change for #227 (or at least it makes it way easier to solve)

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rgaudin commented Oct 23, 2023

Also, browertrix's device param implies a change to it but the choice is very limited and resulting UA does not look like a regular internet user.

Primary goal of this should be to impersonate a regular user, as to be less sensible to Captchas and other blocking services

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