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cupnoodle/mechanize_user_agent.rb

Created July 7, 2016 15:44
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Random legit user agent when web scraping
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mechanize_user_agent.rb
agent = Mechanize.new
# randomly choose one user agent aside from Mechanize itself
agent.user_agent = Mechanize::AGENT_ALIASES[(Mechanize::AGENT_ALIASES.keys - ['Mechanize']).sample]
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