What's my user agent when I parse website with rvest package in R?

Question

Since it is easy in R, I am using rvest package to parse HTML to extract informations from website.

I am wondering what\'s my User-Agent (if there is any) during the

Answer 1

I found this somewhere in a tutorial, it looks like an easier faster way to do it:

uastring <- "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36"
session <- html_session("https://www.linkedin.com/job/", user_agent(uastring))

Answer 2

I used https://httpbin.org/user-agent to find out:

library(rvest)
se <- html_session( "https://httpbin.org/user-agent" )
se$response$request$options$useragent

Answer:

[1] "libcurl/7.37.1 r-curl/0.9.1 httr/1.0.0"

See this bug report for a way to override it.