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How to Use the Free User Agent Generator

Select Device Type

Choose the device type, you can choose user agent for mobile or desktop.

Specify the Number of User Agents

Indicate how many user agents you need. The default is 1, but you can generate up to 5 at a time.

Click ‘Generate’

Press the ‘Generate’ button, and our tool will provide you with a list of user agents.

Why Use a User Agent Generator for Web Scraping?

Using our User Agent Generator, you can enhance your web scraping activities by:

Avoiding Detection

By rotating user agents, you can mimic requests from different browsers and devices, making it harder for websites to detect and block your scraping bots.

Bypassing Anti-Scraping Measures

Many websites use anti-scraping techniques that detect repeated requests from the same user agent. Our tool helps you circumvent these measures by generating unique user agent strings.

Accessing Different Content

Some websites deliver different content based on the user agent. By simulating various user agents, you can scrape all available data, ensuring comprehensive data collection.

Testing and Optimizing Scraping Scripts

Use different user agents to test the robustness of your scraping scripts against diverse web environments and configurations.

Frequently Asked Questions

A User-Agent is a string that identifies the browser, operating system, and device making a web request. Websites use this information to customize content for different devices.

In web scraping, changing User-Agent strings helps make requests appear as if they’re from real users, reducing the chances of getting blocked. For more details, check out our Complete Guide on User-Agents in Web Scraping.

Our User-Agent Generator provides random various User-Agent strings that mimic different devices and browsers. This lets you rotate it in your requests, making websites harder to detect.

For optimal results, rotate the User-Agent string with each request, especially when scraping frequently or accessing high-security sites.

While using different User-Agents helps, it’s usually only part of a broader anti-blocking strategy.

For stricter websites, we recommend combining User-Agent rotation with features like IP rotation, CAPTCHA handling, and request throttling.

Scrapingdog provides a web scraping API that manages these complexities, enabling seamless data extraction without blockage.