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This function fetches a random fact from an external API and prints it out.
Technology Stack : requests, json
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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.104 UBrowser/88.0.4324.104 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
]
return random.choice(user_agents)
def fetch_random_fact():
url = 'https://uselessfacts.com/api/random'
headers = {'User-Agent': get_random_useragent()}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
return response.json()
def xxx():
facts = fetch_random_fact()
print(f"Random Fact: {facts['data']}")