What's my user agent when I parse website with rvest package in R?

r, rvest, web-scraping

Solution

I used https://httpbin.org/user-agent to find out:

library(rvest)
se <- html_session( "https://httpbin.org/user-agent" )
se$response$request$options$useragent

Answer:

[1] "libcurl/7.37.1 r-curl/0.9.1 httr/1.0.0"

See this bug report for a way to override it.

Problem

Since it is easy in R, I am using rvest package to parse HTML to extract informations from website. I am wondering what's my User-Agent (if there is any) during the request, since User-Agent is assigned to the internet browser or is there a way to set it somehow? My code that open session and extract informations from HTML is below: ``` library(rvest) se <- html_session( "http://www.wp.pl" ) %>% html_nodes("[data-st-area=Glonews-mozaika] li:nth-child(7) a") %>% html_attr( name = "href" ) ```

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