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Setting a Random User-Agent

Create a list of user agents and select one at random for each client

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Overview

LoadForge clients support customizing any headers to whatever values you need. In this example we will create a list of user agents and have our clients randomly select one. This method can be adapted to any header.

Code

import time, random
from locust import HttpUser, task, between
from random import randint

USER_AGENTS = [
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
]


class QuickstartUser(HttpUser):
    wait_time = between(3, 5)

    def on_start(self):
        self.headers = {"User-Agent": USER_AGENTS[random.randint(0,len(USER_AGENTS)-1)]}
        self.client.headers = self.headers

    @task(1)
        self.client.get("/myUrl")


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