A user agent is a computer program representing a person, for example, a browser in a Web context.
Besides a browser, a user agent could be a bot scraping webpages, a download manager, or another app accessing the Web. Along with each request they make to the server, browsers include a self-identifying User-Agent HTTP header called a user agent (UA) string. This string often identifies the browser, its version number, and its host operating system.
Spam bots, download managers, and some browsers often send a fake UA string to announce themselves as a different client. This is known as user agent spoofing.
The user agent string can be accessed with JavaScript on the client side using the navigator.userAgent property.
A typical user agent string looks like this: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0".
(Source: Mozilla.org)
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There is protection in place to stop the scraping of these user agent listings. We've had to do this because otherwise we get constantly overrun by inconsiderate or malfunctioning bots which overload the system.
As such, we're forced to block traffic from popular web hosting companies, VPNs and Proxies, we also rate limit requests and have some other checks too. If you need to get access to the listings of user agents you can either get them in an easy-to-use database download or via the API.
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