https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69204
Bug ID: 69204
Summary: weblinkchecker.py uses a fake user-agent
Product: Pywikibot
Version: core (2.0)
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: network
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
weblinkchecker.py (core) contains this comment:
# we fake being Firefox because some webservers block unknown
# clients, e.g. https://images.google.de/images?q=Albit gives a 403
# when using the PyWikipediaBot user agent.
'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128
SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5',
Which was added to core in Jan 2007:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/3165
Faking the user-agent should be an option, default disabled, or only used for
servers known to be problematic.
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