There are times when you're required to return a random user agent - particularly if emulating a query via a CURL request. The following list of agents is far from extensive... just add more into the array if required.
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<?php
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/*
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Return Random User Agent
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http://www.beliefmedia.com/random-user-agent
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*/
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$userAgents=array(
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"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)",
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"Opera/9.20 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.02 [en]",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040624 Firefox/0.9",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/48 (like Gecko) Safari/48",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 7.0; InfoPath.3; .NET CLR 3.1.40767; Trident/6.0; en-IN)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; WOW64)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3; Trident/6.0)",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; Trident/6.0)",
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"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)",
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"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
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"Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows 3.1)"
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);
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/* Select random agent */
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return $userAgents[$random];
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}
