How to set requests 'user-agent' header globally

Question

I want to set requests 'user-agent' header globally. But I can't find any way to do it. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

You can also monkey-patch default_user_agent, like this:

from requests import utils
DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = 'My Agent'
utils.default_user_agent = lambda: DEFAULT_USER_AGENT

This method is useful when the requests are made from an external package, and you don't want to modify the package's source code.