random-headers

Random Headers

random-headers is a lightweight Node.js package that generates random HTTP request headers and User-Agent strings. This package is useful for web scraping, testing, or any use case where you need to simulate different browser headers dynamically.

Installation

You can install the package via npm:

npm install random-headers

Features

• Generate random HTTP headers based on real browsers.
• Get random User-Agent strings for common browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.).
• Command-line support to quickly generate random headers and user agents.

Usage

In Code (JavaScript)

Here’s an example of how you can use the randomHeaders and randomUserAgent functions in your Node.js application:

const { randomHeaders, randomUserAgent } = require('random-headers');

// Generate a set of random headers
const headers = randomHeaders();
console.log(headers);

// Generate a random User-Agent string
const userAgent = randomUserAgent();
console.log(userAgent);

Example Output:

// Headers
{
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, sdch',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
    'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
    'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/58.0.3029.110 Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36'
}

// User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Command-Line Usage

You can also generate random headers or user agents directly from the command line:

1. Generate Random Headers:

npx random-headers

1. Generate Random User-Agent:

npx random-user-agent

API

randomHeaders(): { [key: string]: string }

Generates a random set of HTTP headers based on real-world browser data.

Returns:

• A JavaScript object containing key-value pairs of HTTP headers.

randomUserAgent(): string

Generates a random User-Agent string from different browsers and platforms.

Returns:

• A string representing a random User-Agent.

TypeScript Support

This package includes TypeScript type declarations. You can use it seamlessly in TypeScript projects.

Example:

import { randomHeaders, randomUserAgent } from 'random-headers';

const headers = randomHeaders();
const userAgent = randomUserAgent();

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests if you want to contribute to the project.