Set own default UserAgent

If i want to use my own user-agent on every request i am doing with node-fetch i currently have to add the header every time i use fetch. In my opinion there should be a possibility to set a global default user-agent because the user-agent is always static for the lifetime of the application (or not?) and setting it every time is a unnecessary overhead.

Something like:

fetch.setDefaultUserAgent('myApp/1.0.1 (MYSERVER; Linux) node-fetch');

[jimmywarting]

easies thing you could do right now is maybe to just build a own wrapper around node-fetch

// fetch.js
const fetch = require('node-fetch')

module.exports = (url, args = {}) => {
  args.headers = args.headers || {}
  args.headers['user-agent'] = 'my own'
  return fetch(url, args)
}


// main.js
const fetch = require('./fetch.js')
fetch('https://httpbin.org/get')

[gugu]

Probably we did not understand each other. The documentation says, that if I don’t provide headers parameter, it will be generated automatically and will include ‘Accept’, ‘Content-Length’, … headers.

It is not clear, what happens if I provide ‘User-Agent’ header only. Will it still add Accept, Content-Length, … headers or not. According to the source code, it will change User-Agent and still generate other headers (Accept, Content-Length). That’s what I expected. Sorry for that misunderstanding