# requests-random-user-agent [](https://travis-ci.org/DavidWittman/requests-random-user-agent) [](https://pypi.org/project/requests-random-user-agent/)
Configures the requests library to randomly select a desktop User-Agent. See the full list in [requests_random_user_agent/useragents.txt](requests_random_user_agent/useragents.txt).
### Installation
```
pip install requests-random-user-agent
```
### Usage
``` python
import requests
import requests_random_user_agent
s = requests.Session()
print(s.headers['User-Agent'])
# Without a session
resp = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/user-agent')
print(resp.json()['user-agent'])
```
User-Agents are randomized per-session or per-request. Individual HTTP requests without a session will each have a random User-Agent selected from the list in useragents.txt.
#### Android User-Agents
Set the environment variable `UA_PLATFORM=android` to use a list of [Android-specific User-Agents](requests_random_user_agent/android_useragents.txt) instead. List provided by [WhatIsMyBrowser](whatismybrowser.com).
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