- Added a fix for Reddit 403'ing the bot, by including a user-agent h…

…eader impersonating a Firefox client
Eukon05 · Mar 3, 2024 · 4a45407 · 4a45407
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diff --git a/src/main/java/com/eukon05/dilanbot/reddit/RedditService.java b/src/main/java/com/eukon05/dilanbot/reddit/RedditService.java
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ public class RedditService {
     private final Gson gson;
     private final HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
     private static final String REDDIT_API_URL = "https://www.reddit.com/r/%s/randomrising.json?limit=1";
+    private static final String MOZILLA_USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0";
+    private static final String USER_AGENT_HEADER = "User-Agent";
 
     public RedditService(Gson gson) {
         this.gson = gson;
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ public RedditService(Gson gson) {
     RedditSubmission getRandomSubmission(String subredditName) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(HttpRequest
                 .newBuilder()
+                .setHeader(USER_AGENT_HEADER, MOZILLA_USER_AGENT)
                 .uri(URI.create(String.format(REDDIT_API_URL, URLEncoder.encode(subredditName, StandardCharsets.UTF_8))))
                 .build(), HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());