I've recently written an application to download (non-OSM) information
automatically by basically automating what I previously did manually. In case
the people who run the site I'm downloading from wonder why I'm only making
three calls to complete the authentication and download the data rather than
all the extra ones their javascript/php site does at the same time (to check
things for display etc) I included a descriptive application name to explain
what the data was for, and an email address in case they wanted to reach me.
Ed
> -Original Message-
> From: Iain Simpson
> Sent: 09 July 2019 13:54
> To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Downloading Slippy Maps / User-
> Agent
>
> "..set it to something that uniquely identifying your application,
> rather than using one from a web browser"
>
> Thanks for the comment. I take your point and I've now created a
> unique
> user-agent, identifying the OS and application description, which
> works.
>
> Since the standard Python agent is blacklisted, there does not seem
> to
> be much documentation on how small non-browser applications
> (using very
> simple HTML techniques) should format their user-agents.
>
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