Melroy van den Berg

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Fake user-agent by default just gets you a random user agent string (in this case a random chrome user-agent string). Which means it can also be another operating string like...

Upgrade `pip install --upgrade fake-useragent` to get the latest version. Which should now give you more up to date user agent strings. Also you have the ability to set `os="windows"`...

You have the ability now to set the OS. ``` from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent(os='windows') ua.random ``` Since we don't have a lot of user agent strings, the...

Maybe you should also try to limit the requests / seconds / minutes you do. Since your IP is banned now, no fake useragent strings will help you with that....

Also are you using Amazon AWS?

Related to: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/issues/109 and: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/issues/61 We want to switch to another source and also add mobile platforms.

The data we now use doesn't contain mobile (eg. Android) user agent strings: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/blob/master/src/fake_useragent/data/browsers.json

We just don't have mobile user strings from the new data source.

So we actually want to migrate to a new data source with more up to date user-agent strings, since the current ones can be quite outdated. Would that solve your...

No indeed. But I said we are working on migration the data source to a better one. Giving you always a real user agent string. So that would make this...