Source code for scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent

"""Set User-Agent header per spider or use a default value from settings"""

from scrapy import signals


[docs]class UserAgentMiddleware: """This middleware allows spiders to override the user_agent""" def __init__(self, user_agent='Scrapy'): self.user_agent = user_agent @classmethod def from_crawler(cls, crawler): o = cls(crawler.settings['USER_AGENT']) crawler.signals.connect(o.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened) return o def spider_opened(self, spider): self.user_agent = getattr(spider, 'user_agent', self.user_agent) def process_request(self, request, spider): if self.user_agent: request.headers.setdefault(b'User-Agent', self.user_agent)