Source code for scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent

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

from __future__ import annotations

from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

from scrapy import Request, Spider, signals

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    # typing.Self requires Python 3.11
    from typing_extensions import Self

    from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
    from scrapy.http import Response


[docs]class UserAgentMiddleware: """This middleware allows spiders to override the user_agent""" def __init__(self, user_agent: str = "Scrapy"): self.user_agent = user_agent @classmethod def from_crawler(cls, crawler: Crawler) -> Self: o = cls(crawler.settings["USER_AGENT"]) crawler.signals.connect(o.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened) return o def spider_opened(self, spider: Spider) -> None: self.user_agent = getattr(spider, "user_agent", self.user_agent) def process_request( self, request: Request, spider: Spider ) -> Request | Response | None: if self.user_agent: request.headers.setdefault(b"User-Agent", self.user_agent) return None