UserAgentRandomizer

There exist few use cases where random HTTP User-Agent strings are required. This is the reason why the user_agent_randomizer gem exists. Currently the gem provides roundabout 10.700 different User-Agent strings. You can choose a random HTTP User-Agent string from the entire pool as well as fetch a user agent by category.

Every HTTP User-Agent string is assigned exactly to one of the following categories:

crawler
desktop_browser
mobile_browser
console
offline_browser
email_client
link_checker
email_collector
validator
feed_reader
library
cloud_platform
other

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'user_agent_randomizer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install user_agent_randomizer

Usage

The usage is simple. You can fetch a random HTTP UserAgent string from the entire pool as well as one from a specified category (see list above):

require 'user_agent_randomizer'

# Fetch a random HTTP User-Agent string from the entire pool
UserAgent.new
# => "AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: longbows-hideout)"

# Fetch a random HTTP User-Agent for a desktop browser
UserAgent.new("desktop_browser")
# => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iron/0.2.152.0 Safari/12733120.525"

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/asconix/user_agent_randomizer/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request