From: Thorsten <mail@aero2k.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:12:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add User-Agent header to Wikipedia API requests
X-Git-Url: https://git.aero2k.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=HEAD;p=urlbot-v3.git

add User-Agent header to Wikipedia API requests
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diff --git a/src/distbot/plugins/lookup.py b/src/distbot/plugins/lookup.py
index 547b762..f412231 100644
--- a/src/distbot/plugins/lookup.py
+++ b/src/distbot/plugins/lookup.py
@@ -131,11 +131,12 @@ class Wikipedia(Worker):
             'inprop': 'url'
         }
         apiurl = 'https://%s.wikipedia.org/w/api.php' % (lang)
+        headers = {'User-Agent': 'urlbot-v3/1.0 (XMPP bot)'}
 
         logger.info('fetching %s' % apiurl)
 
         try:
-            response = requests.get(apiurl, params=apiparams).json()
+            response = requests.get(apiurl, params=apiparams, headers=headers).json()
 
             page = next(iter(response['query']['pages'].values()))
             short = page.get('extract')