How to send a custom user-agent and app URL to a public API?

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Hi there,

I searched around but didn’t find any answers to this question in the forums. A public API I am using asks the following of anyone who wishes to leverage it in their app:

provide a custom user-agent with a URL to your application or a page describing it, if used outside client-side javascript

I have set up an API call via the API Connector, no problem. However, I don’t want my app to be blocked once I start leaning more heavily on these API calls.

How does one go about providing a custom user-agent with a call being made via Bubble’s API Connector, with a link to one’s application?

For the time being, I have added a header with Key = “User-Agent” and Value = “String identifying my app”. My API call still succeeds when I reinitialize it, so perhaps this is all that’s required?

Thanks very much for your time in reading this, and any assistance you can offer.

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You can just set the correct header for user agent
user-agent and give the value you want (like the name of your app)

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Hi @Jici ! Yes that is what I ended up doing. Just wasn’t sure that was enough. Thank you! :slight_smile:

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You can follow the normal syntax suggested here
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent