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Add user agent to globaluserinfo call #1542

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Add user agent to globaluserinfo call
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Add env to UA
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13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion TWLight/users/helpers/editor_data.py
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logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Wikimedia's User-Agent policy requires a descriptive User-Agent with contact
# information; the generic Python-urllib default is blocked with HTTP 403.
# https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
# The environment (local/staging/production) is included so Wikimedia can
# distinguish development and staging traffic from production.
TWLIGHT_USER_AGENT = "TWLight/1.0 ({env}; https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/; {contact}) Python-urllib".format(
env=settings.TWLIGHT_ENV or "unknown",
contact=os.environ.get("TWLIGHT_ERROR_MAILTO", "[email protected]"),
)


def editor_global_userinfo(wp_sub: int):
"""
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query = "{endpoint}?action=query&meta=globaluserinfo&{wp_param_name}={wp_param}&guiprop=editcount|merged&format=json&formatversion=2".format(
endpoint=endpoint, wp_param_name=wp_param_name, wp_param=wp_param
)
return json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(query).read())
request = urllib.request.Request(query, headers={"User-Agent": TWLIGHT_USER_AGENT})
return json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(request).read())


def editor_reg_date(identity: dict, global_userinfo: dict):
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