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Super RSS News Feed aggregator written in Node.js and ES6

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What Do You Mean By "Change The User Agent"?

JimLynchCodes opened this issue · comments

commented

Hi, in the README here there is a a section for user agent:

Changing the user agent for requests
const feeder = new RssFeedEmitter({ userAgent: 'Your UA string' });

But I'm not sure what this means. When would someone want to set the userAgent differently? Why is this a good setting to have? It would be great if there was some text here explaining this a bit! 👍

commented

Some feeds and sites will filter & rate limit your requests (and time them out if they're too close together) based on several factors, one of them being your UserAgent string. In a web context, it's what distinguishes your client from other clients, and in this case it's to distinguish your feed fetcher from all others.