Melroy van den Berg

We ~~might~~ need to migrate to a new source of user-agent strings.

We have recently getting more issues that users of `fake-useragent` are unpleased with the current data source. We really need to migrate soon to a new data source. Like: https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/....

> https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/ ? We could use that list. It's a active list with **most used** user-agents. But it's a very small list actually. I don't know if that is really...

I will start with updating the pip dependency packages in PR: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/170 (EDIT: is merged now) Then I will try to update the scraper to use https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/

Code base is now ready to migrate / scraping the other data source for user-agent strings. https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/170, https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/171, https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/172 and https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/173 are merged. Working on this issue now, see new...

Upgrade `pip install --upgrade fake-useragent` to get the latest version. Which should now give you more up to date user agent strings.

> Any suggestions on how to overcome the issue with outdated useragents strings? How are you doing this personally guys? > > https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/ ? Damn.. https://techblog.willshouse.com/ is now down.

You are using a very old version. Try to use the latest version: `pip install --upgrade fake-useragent` **EDIT:** Also note that the package name is renamed from `fake_useragent` to `fake-useragent`.

> Edit 2: It is solved by adding dist-info of fake-useragent 1.1.0 into setup file with "--add-data" command. All good now. Interesting since there is indeed an other issue on...

Ow it's maintained. But nobody helps me with the fix for windows (pyinstaller). I don't run Windows.