fake-useragent

What is fake-useragent?

The fake-useragent npm package is used to generate random user-agent strings, which can be useful for web scraping, testing, and other scenarios where you need to simulate different browsers or devices.

What are fake-useragent's main functionalities?

Generate a random user-agent

This feature allows you to generate a random user-agent string. This can be useful for web scraping to avoid detection by rotating user-agents.

const fakeUa = require('fake-useragent');
const randomUserAgent = fakeUa();
console.log(randomUserAgent);

Generate a user-agent for a specific browser

This feature allows you to generate a user-agent string for a specific browser, such as Chrome. This can be useful when you need to simulate requests from a particular browser.

const fakeUa = require('fake-useragent');
const chromeUserAgent = fakeUa('chrome');
console.log(chromeUserAgent);

Generate a user-agent for a specific operating system

This feature allows you to generate a user-agent string for a specific operating system, such as Windows. This can be useful when you need to simulate requests from a particular OS.

const fakeUa = require('fake-useragent');
const windowsUserAgent = fakeUa('windows');
console.log(windowsUserAgent);

Other packages similar to fake-useragent

random-useragent

The random-useragent package provides similar functionality by generating random user-agent strings. It offers more customization options, such as filtering by browser, device, and operating system.

useragent

The useragent package is more focused on parsing and analyzing user-agent strings rather than generating them. It can be used to detect browser, version, and platform information from a given user-agent string.

user-agents

The user-agents package provides a large dataset of user-agent strings and allows you to randomly select one. It also supports filtering by browser, device, and operating system.

README

Fake User-Agent for nodejs

Just another package for generate a fake userAgent to bypass some guys

How to install

npm install fake-useragent

How to use

const fakeUa = require('fake-useragent');
console.log(fakeUa());

In the real world ^o^

const fakeUa = require('fake-useragent');
const request = require('request');

var url = 'https://www.google.com.vn/search?safe=off&hl=en&q=hello';
var headers = {
  'User-Agent': fakeUa()
};
request.get({ url: url, headers: headers }, function (e, r, body) {
  console.log(r, body)
});