Random User-Agent with Proxy HTTP Request

This function uses the urllib3 library to generate a random User-Agent header and make an HTTP GET request with a proxy, returning the response data.

Technology Stack : urllib3, random

Code Type : Custom function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def get_random_useragent():
    import random
    from urllib3.util import Retry
    from urllib3.util.retry import RetryFromParams

    def random_useragent():
        user_agents = [
            "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3",
            "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Safari/605.1.15",
            "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0",
            "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36"
        ]
        return random.choice(user_agents)

    retries = Retry(
        total=3,
        read=5,
        connect=5,
        backoff_factor=0.5,
        status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504],
        method_whitelist=["HEAD", "GET", "OPTIONS"]
    )

    proxy = {
        'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
        'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
    }

    with urllib3.PoolManager(
            retries=retries,
            headers={'User-Agent': random_useragent()},
            proxy=proxy
    ) as http:
        response = http.request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/ip')
        return response.data