From da4568f5a2d24e0933d44b16b5ef180095c42dab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 23:31:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] src/Tweeper.php: use a minimal User-Agent string to fix
scraping twitter.com
Twitter.com has started serving the user timeline via json when the user
agent is a modern browser, this breaks scraping in Tweeper which expects
html content.
Remove any version info from the User-Agent header used by Tweeper to
make twitter.com think it is talking with a very old browser, tricking
it into serving html content.
NOTE: Tweeper cannot just use the default User-Agent from the CURL
library because this would break scraping Facebook.com; using a minimal
but still browser-like User-Agent seems to be a viable common
denominator for all sites currently supported by Tweeper.
---
src/Tweeper.php | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/Tweeper.php b/src/Tweeper.php
index 877e882..aedde4d 100644
--- a/src/Tweeper.php
+++ b/src/Tweeper.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
*/
class Tweeper {
- private static $userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0";
+ private static $userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0";
private static $maxConnectionTimeout = 5;
private static $maxConnectionRetries = 5;
--
2.1.4