Setting "User-Agent" parameters for URLConnection for querying Google from a Java application
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Solution 1
If you just want to know what to set your user agent to so you can mimic the response that browser will get you can use this site.
http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com/
Solution 2
The steps blow can help you to get the "User-Agent":
- open the chrome , press the F12.
- enter any available web site , then press Enter.
- click the "NetWork" on DevTools, and click the web site that entered just right.
- so you can find the "User-Agent", just like the picture below. Just like this
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Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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Deep Wine Red almost 2 years
I am trying to get the results back from a Google query, in Java as follows:
String urlquery = "https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=apples&oq=apples"; URL url = new URL(urlquery); URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); URLConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.0 Safari/532.5");
But, I don't know how to set the "User-Agent" parameters above. From where do I get the values for my system? I just copied these values from some code I found online.
My system configuration is as follows: Mac OSX 10.8.3 Intel i7 Safari 6.0.3(8536.28.10)