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Cannot set user agent

See original GitHub issue

How do I override the user agent? I have tried the following;

const stealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth')();
stealthPlugin.enabledEvasions['user-agent-override'] = 'Cool Agent';
puppeteer.use(stealthPlugin);

However when I navigate to https://bot.sannysoft.com/ I can see the user agent is unchanged.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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berstendcommented, Sep 27, 2020

PS: I’m working on a better/unified way to override stealth plugin settings in #303

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kekearifcommented, Oct 1, 2020

@berstend Thanks for this. Sorry for the late reply. I’m curious what exactly is locale? Do these languages have to match the browser languages set by puppeteer? For example if I go to https://bot.sannysoft.com it will say my languages are en-US,en. Are these the values I should use? What is q=0.9?

This is a user agent I found Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36, how would I construct the object for this?

const ua = UserAgentOverride({
  userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.3',
  locale: 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
  // Is this right for the platform?
  platform: 'macOS'
})

I’m not sure if my example above is correct or not.