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-rw-r--r--unbiased/sources/base.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/unbiased/sources/base.py b/unbiased/sources/base.py
index 68211c5..ea81f25 100644
--- a/unbiased/sources/base.py
+++ b/unbiased/sources/base.py
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ class NewsSource(object):
@classmethod
def _fetch_content(cls, url):
- res = requests.get(url, timeout=3)
+ # fake a regular browser user agent for sites that sniff
+ headers = {
+ 'User-Agent': u'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36'
+ }
+ res = requests.get(url, timeout=3, headers=headers)
if res.status_code == 200:
content = res.text
else: