Random Quote Fetcher Function

This function fetches a random quote by making a request to an API.

Technology Stack : Requests, Random User-Agent selection

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import requests
import random

def get_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 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.152 Mobile Safari/537.36'
    ]
    return random.choice(user_agents)

def fetch_random_quote():
    url = 'https://api.quotable.io/random'
    headers = {'User-Agent': get_random_useragent()}
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        return response.json()['content']
    else:
        return "Error fetching quote"

def get_random_quote():
    return fetch_random_quote()