Is it possible to change the user-agent string used with Google Apps Script UrlFetchApp.fetch
requests?
This discussion from 2010 insinuates that the UrlFetch module in Google Apps Script supports adding the User-Agent
header to the optional headers
collection, like the UrlFetch module of Google App Engine does. However, the GAS documentation states nothing about this. A test script I made also shows it doesn't work.
Test script:
function testUserAgentString(){
var page;
try {
page = UrlFetchApp.fetch('http://www.myuseragent.net/',
{headers: {"User-Agent":
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"
}}).getContentText();
Logger.log(page);
} catch(_) {}
}
Log output (minus irrelevant HTML) was:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleDocs; script; +http://docs.google.com)
which is the default user-agent string used when doing UrlFetch requests by GAS.
Am I missing something or doing something wrong?
Edit: As this is currently not possible, I placed an enhancement request on the Issue Tracker, per Arun's suggestion.
UrlFetchApp. Fetch resources and communicate with other hosts over the Internet. This service allows scripts to communicate with other applications or access other resources on the web by fetching URLs. A script can use the URL Fetch service to issue HTTP and HTTPS requests and receive responses.
The POST API returns a parameter from the query string of the URL and the name from the request body. const doPost = (request = {}) => { const { parameter, postData: { contents, type } = {} } = request; const data = JSON. parse(contents); return ContentService. createTextOutput(parameter.
URL Fetch. This service allows scripts to access other resources on the web by fetching URLs. A script can use the UrlFetch service to issue HTTP and HTTPS requests and receive responses. The UrlFetch service uses Google's network infrastructure for efficiency and scaling purposes.
This is not possible today. Please log an enhancement request on the Issue Tracker with your use cases so this can be reviewed and considered.
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