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@ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent
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This is an adapted version of rand-user-agent by WebScrapingAPI specifically designed for environments lacking access to server file systems (fs), such as Cloudflare Workers.
This is an adapted version of rand-user-agent by WebScrapingAPI specifically designed for environments lacking access to server file systems (fs), such as Cloudflare Workers.
Run the following command in the main folder of your project:
# Using npm
npm i @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent
# Using pnpm
pnpm add @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent
# Using yarn
yarn add @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent
import { randUA } from "@ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent";
// ...
const agent = randUA("desktop");
console.log(agent);
You can also provide a browser and an operating system in the parameters of randUA in order to filter out the user agents:
import { randUA } from "@ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent";
// ...
const agent = randUA("desktop", "chrome", "linux");
console.log(agent);
FAQs
This is an adapted version of rand-user-agent by WebScrapingAPI specifically designed for environments lacking access to server file systems (fs), such as Cloudflare Workers.
The npm package @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent receives a total of 15 weekly downloads. As such, @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @ahmedrangel/rand-user-agent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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