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fix: replace hardcoded user agent with environment variable #16

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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions twitter_scraper/config.py
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"""Configuration constants for TwitterDataScraper."""
from __future__ import annotations

import os

TWITTER_LOGIN_URL = "https://twitter.com/i/flow/login"
TWITTER_BASE_URL = "https://twitter.com"
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PROFILE_HREF_PATTERN = r"^/[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,15}$"

# User agent (Chrome 131 - January 2025)
USER_AGENT = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
)
USER_AGENT_ENV_VAR = os.getenv('TWITTER_USER_AGENT', "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")

USER_AGENT = USER_AGENT_ENV_VAR