Can I set custom headers in my requests using MechanicalSoup?

Yes, you can set custom headers in your requests using MechanicalSoup. MechanicalSoup is a Python library that acts as a wrapper around the requests library and BeautifulSoup library, providing a simple way to automate interaction with websites.

To set custom headers with MechanicalSoup, you need to modify the headers of the requests.Session object that MechanicalSoup uses to send requests. Here's an example of how to do this:

import mechanicalsoup

# Create a browser object
browser = mechanicalsoup.StatefulBrowser()

# Set custom headers
custom_headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'My Custom User Agent/1.0',
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
    # Add more custom headers here if needed
}
browser.session.headers.update(custom_headers)

# Now you can use the browser object to navigate with the custom headers
response = browser.open('https://example.com')

# Print the response
print(response.text)

In the example above, we first create a StatefulBrowser instance, which encapsulates a requests.Session. We then define a dictionary custom_headers with the headers we want to include in our requests. After that, we use the update method on the headers attribute of the browser.session object to set our custom headers.

Now, whenever you use the browser object to make requests, it will include the custom headers you've defined. This is useful when you need to simulate a particular browser, pass authentication tokens, or handle other scenarios where specific headers are required for the server to respond correctly.