Any way to set/add to user agent string?

[Hanne Moa]

I know mailto can be set, but I hope to use this library as part of a service that fetches from many APIs and would like the same or same-ish user agent everywhere.

[Scott Chamberlain]

thanks for your question @hmpf

we currently send with each request the following UA headers (package versions change obviously)

User-Agent: python-requests/2.22.0 habanero/0.7.0
X-USER-AGENT: python-requests/2.22.0 habanero/0.7.0

Would you want to add to that string or change it completely?

[Hanne Moa]

Good question. If the existing setting can be both read and changed (allowing changing it completely and adding to it) I think you'll never get this question again :)

I need just to add to the end, my UA, link to site, and a mailto. I'll be hitting crossref once a week or so, is the current plan. (The actual mailto wil lhave to be a setting on my side though as it's a microservice that no doubt will end up running in multiple places.)

[Scott Chamberlain]

i'll have a look. Not sure right now what it will look like but it'll be possible for sure

[Scott Chamberlain]

@hmpf reinstall from branch user-agent [sudo] pip[3] install git+git://github.com/sckott/habanero.git@caching#egg=habanero

# set an additional user-agent string
x = Crossref(ua_string = "foo bar")
x
x.works(ids = '10.1371/journal.pone.0033693')

## unset the additional user-agent string
x = Crossref()
x.works(ids = '10.1371/journal.pone.0033693')

do verbose logging to see the request headers

import requests
import logging
import httplib as http_client
http_client.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
logging.basicConfig()
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3")
requests_log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log.propagate = True

[Hanne Moa]

The pip-url was wrong, this is the correct one: git+git://github.com/sckott/habanero.git@user-agent#egg=habanero.

[Hanne Moa]

For python 3, replace import httplib as http_client with import http.client as http_client.

Tested. This covers my needs!

[Scott Chamberlain]

woops, thx for the url fix - forgot to fix the copy/paste.

glad it works.