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Add User-Agent request header to historical odds scraper #82

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Add User-Agent request header to historical odds scraper #82

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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion sigopt-beats-vegas/predictor/bet_reader.py
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ def read_info(filename="bet_info.pkl", start_date=SEASON_1415_START, end_date=SE
end_date,
)

request_headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
'Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36'
}
bet_info = {}
day = end_date
while day >= start_date:
Expand All @@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ def read_info(filename="bet_info.pkl", start_date=SEASON_1415_START, end_date=SE
page = None
for _ in range(5):
try:
page = requests.get(page_url, timeout=10)
page = requests.get(page_url, timeout=10, headers=request_headers)
except:
print "retrying..."
continue
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