fake-useragent
Up-to-date simple useragent faker with real world database
Description
[](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/actions/workflows/action.yml?query=branch%3Amain) [](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/actions/workflows/ruff.yml?query=branch%3Amain) [](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/actions/workflows/codeql.yml?query=branch%3Amain) # fake-useragent Up-to-date simple useragent faker with real world database. ## Features - Data is pre-downloaded & post-processed from [Intoli LLC](https://github.com/intoli/user-agents/tree/main/src) and the data is part of the package itself - The data consists of a wide range of browser agents and various browsers - Retrieves user-agent strings (both of type: `desktop`, `tablet` and/or `mobile` UAs) - Retrieve user-agent Python dictionary (aka object), with fields like `useragent`, `percent`, `type`, `device_brand`, `browser`, `browser_version`, `os`, `os_version` and `platform` - Supports Python 3.x ### Installation ```sh pip install fake-useragent ``` Or if you have multiple Python / pip versions installed, use `pip3`: ```sh pip3 install fake-useragent ``` ### Usage Simple usage examples below, see also next chapters in this readme for more advanced usages: ```py from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent() # Get a random browser user-agent string print(ua.random) # Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0 # Or get user-agent string from a specific browser print(ua.chrome) # Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 print(ua.google) # Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/343.0.695551749 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 print(ua['Chrome']) # Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 print(ua.firefox) # Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:133.0) Gecko/133.0 Firefox/133.0 print(ua.ff) # Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0 print(ua.safari) # Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Ddg/17.6 print(ua.opera) # Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/114.0.0.0 print(ua.edge) # Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0 ``` #### Additional usage Additional features that fake-useragent now offers since v1.2.0. If you want to specify your own browser list, you can do that via the `browsers` argument (default is: `["Google", "Chrome", "Firefox", "Edge", "Opera", "Safari", "Android", "Yandex Browser", "Samsung Internet", "Opera Mobile", "Mobile Safari", "Firefox Mobile", "Firefox iOS", "Chrome Mobile", "Chrome Mobile iOS", "Mobile Safari UI/WKWebView", "Edge Mobile", "DuckDuckGo Mobile", "MiuiBrowser", "Whale", "Twitter", "Facebook", "Amazon Silk"]`). This example will only return random user-agents from Edge and Chrome: ```py from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent(browsers=['Edge', 'Chrome']) ua.random ``` _Note:_ Fakeuser-agent knowns about browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Android, Opera Mobile, Mobile Safari, Firefox Mobile, Firefox iOS, Chrome Mobile, Chrome Mobile iOS and more (see again full list above). _Note #2:_ Since fakeuser-agent v2.0.0 the browser names are case-sensitive! --- If you want to specify your own operating systems, you can do that via the `os` argument (default is: `["Windows", "Linux", "Ubuntu", "Chrome OS", "Mac OS X", "Android", "iOS"]`). In this example you will only get Linux user-agents back: ```py from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent(os='Linux') ua.random ``` _Note:_ Since fakeuser-agent v2.0.0 the OS names are case-sensitive! --- You can also specify the type of platforms you want to use, you can do that via the `platforms` argument (default is `["desktop", "mobile", "tablet"]`). This example will only return random user-agents from a mobile device: ```py from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent(platforms='mobile') ua.random ``` And a random user-agent from a desktop device: ```py from fake_useragent import UserAgent ua = UserAgent(platforms='desktop') ua.random ``` --- If you want to return more recent user-agent strings, you can play with the `min_version` argument (default is: `0.0`, meaning all user agents will match). In this example you get only user agents that have a minimum version of 120.0: ```py from
Release History
| Version | Changes | Urgency | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2.0 | Imported from PyPI (2.2.0) | Low | 4/21/2026 |
| 2.1.0 | ## What's Changed * Update README.md by @matecsaj in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/415 * Refactor UA updater CLI and add GH action to run updates automatically by @sebastian-correa in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/404 * Trigger only once per month by @melroy89 in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/422 * Speedup `ua_convert` parser by @sebastian-correa in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/424 * Bump ruff f | Low | 3/12/2025 |
| 2.0.3 | - Fix `importlib-resources` in `dependencies` toml file. **See the `2.0.0` release below [for all the changes that are in v2.0.0](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/releases/tag/2.0.0)!!** **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/compare/2.0.2...2.0.3 | Low | 12/10/2024 |
| 2.0.2 | Sync latest docs to PyPi. **See the `2.0.0` release below [for all the changes that are in v2.0.0](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/releases/tag/2.0.0)!!** **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/compare/2.0.1...2.0.2 | Low | 12/9/2024 |
| 2.0.1 | Small patch release after v2.0.0, by adding a requires-python line to the toml file. We only support Python 3.9 or newer. ## What's Changed * Bump validate-pyproject from 0.22 to 0.23 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/393 * Bump coverage from 7.6.4 to 7.6.8 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/398 * Bump ruff from 0.7.3 to 0.8.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/403 * Bump tomli | Low | 12/7/2024 |
| 2.0.0 | # fake-useragent v2.0.0 Finally, we successfully switched (again) to a new data source from [Intoli](https://intoli.com/), which allows us to have much more user-agent strings again. Thank you all for your support! **Important:** Keep in mind that v2.0.0 does have some breaking changes like `platform` type "pc" value is now changed to "desktop" (in case you were using this). See below for all breaking changes! ## Breaking changes - OS and browser options are now case sensitive!! - | Low | 12/4/2024 |
| 1.5.1 | **Fix:** Remove trailing spaces in user agent strings ## What's Changed * Bump pytest from 7.4.3 to 8.1.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/306 * Bump lxml from 4.9.3 to 5.1.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/305 * Bump virtualenv from 20.25.0 to 20.25.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/303 * Bump ruff from 0.2.1 to 0.3.2 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/f | Low | 3/16/2024 |
| 1.5.0 | Most important change: The user-agent database has been updated with a more recent list of user agents. It also now comes with mobile UA's, meaning a new parameter: `platforms` has been introduced (see [README.md](https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/blob/main/README.md)). The only down-side is that this new data source didn't contain any usage data, meaning `min_percentage` is not useful anymore. Despite which `min_percentage` value you set, fake-useragent always return all data | Low | 3/8/2024 |
| 1.4.0 | ## What's Changed * Bump urllib3 from 2.0.4 to 2.0.6 in /cache_scraper by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/217 * Bump tzlocal from 5.0.1 to 5.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/218 * Bump build from 0.10.0 to 1.0.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/221 * Bump tldextract from 3.4.4 to 3.6.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent/pull/220 * Bump cffi fro | Low | 11/24/2023 |
| 1.3.0 | - Introducing new `ua.getRandom`, `ua.getFirefox`, `ua.getChrome`, `ua.getSafari`. And a generic method: `ua.getBrowser(..)` (eg. `getBrowser('firefox')`) - These new properties above allows you to retrieve the whole raw Python dictionary, instead of only the UA string. - These properties might return different key/values pairs in the future! So `ua.random` is a more stable interface. - Fix the `os` argument 'windows' to check for both `win10`and `win7` values (previously only che | Low | 10/2/2023 |
| 1.2.1 | - Still using the new dataset of course! - Small improvements in the min_percentage check - Update all Pip package dependencies _Note:_ Parameter `use_external_data=True` and `verify_ssl` are **removed**. If you use those parameters, just remove it in your code! | Low | 8/2/2023 |
| 1.2.0 | - Updated browser useragent data đ - Allow filters on browser, OS and usage percentage đ - Update the cache scraper to scape the new data source for user-agent strings - Adapted the code to work with the new JSON data format - Parameter `use_external_data=True` and `verify_ssl` are **removed**. If you use those parameters, just remove it in your code! | Low | 8/2/2023 |
| 1.1.3 | - Update deps | Low | 3/20/2023 |
| 1.1.2 | - Security release update | Low | 2/8/2023 |
| 1.1.1 | - Remove white spaces from user agent strings, this is a patch release | Low | 12/4/2022 |
| 1.1.0 | - Add `pkg_resource` as fallback mechanism in trying to retrieve the local JSON data file | Low | 11/26/2022 |
| 1.0.1 | Bug fix release. - Add `importlib-metadata` & `importlib-resources` as dependencies - Check on specific Python version regarding the importlib resources (python v3.10 or higher) in order to have `files()` working - `importlib_metadata` should now also work on Python version before 3.8 - Remove obsolete `MANIFEST.in` file | Low | 11/19/2022 |
| 1.0.0 | Finally, a major release! Version 1.0.0 stable. I hope you like it. - Make the JSON Lines data file part of the Python package, data is retrieved locally - Extend the `myproject.toml` file with `package-data` support - Remove centralized caching server implementation - Make real unit-tests which should run reliable, fast, independent and without Internet connection | Low | 11/18/2022 |
| 0.1.14 | **Changes:** - Improve code quality standards using modern Python >=3.7 syntax - Migrated to `pyproject.toml` build system format + syntax check - Add additional classifiers to the toml file - Improved `tox.ini` file - Improved GitHub Actions job using pip cache - And various small fixes | Low | 11/5/2022 |
| 0.1.13 | We have now a separate [GitHub Organization](https://github.com/fake-useragent) for hosting the `fake-useragent` repo. Changes in 0.1.13: - Implement `browsers` argument, allowing you to override the browser names you want to use - Fix browser listing of Internet Explorer and Edge - Don't depend on w3schools.com anymore - Clean-up data (temp) file format - Update fallback cache server URL / use JSON Lines as file format - Move to GitHub Actions instead of Travis - Deplo | Low | 11/3/2022 |