Random Fact Fetcher from API

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Code introduction


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']}")                
              
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