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Added user agents from Apify / crawlee-python fingerprint dataset #377

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Added user agents from Apify / crawlee-python fingerprint dataset
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thanks for the contribution @brentclark

the instances do not match the pattern, see CI failure.

What about removing them?

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rarous commented Nov 25, 2024

Apify/crawlee uses browser UAs and is never disclosed with its own UA string.

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how to detect them? using heuristics on HTTP headers?

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rarous commented Nov 25, 2024

They are using bayesian networks (see https://github.com/apify/fingerprint-suite/), I don't think it is worth the effort.

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ack, thanks for the interesting pointer.

cc/ @antoinevastel

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then it's out of scope for crawler-user-agents, which is entirely based on UA.

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thanks @brentclark for the suggestion!

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