How to spoof your useragent as googlebot with php- curl or file_get_contents

[fapapfap]

I would like to spoof the useragent as googlebot through the implementation of file_get_contents, or curl (which ever is easiest).  How to do this?

 

Googlebot useragent = Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)

[Pikachu2000]

There is no legitimate reason to do that.

[fapapfap]

There is no legitimate reason to do that.

 

What are you talking about?

[QuickOldCar]

Don't pretend to be google, be your browser, people know you are not google by the ip.

 

Here is a few different methods, if need a different user-agent string, look them up

 

for curl:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1');

 

in htaccess:

php_value user_agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1

 

within a php script:

ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1');

 

for file_get_contents you use the ini_set() above

 

[fapapfap]

Don't pretend to be google, be your browser, people know you are not google by the ip.

 

Here is a few different methods, if need a different user-agent string, look them up

 

for curl:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1');

 

in htaccess:

php_value user_agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1

 

within a php script:

ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1');

 

for file_get_contents you use the ini_set() above

 

Hi thank you for that, exactly what I was looking for!