What user-agent should I use when scraping Zoominfo?

When scraping any website, including Zoominfo, it's important to respect the site's terms of service and use a user-agent that does not violate any of their policies. Zoominfo, like many other websites, may have specific rules about scraping and automated access. Before proceeding with web scraping, you should review Zoominfo's terms of service or obtain permission to ensure that you are not engaging in any activity that could be considered unauthorized or illegal.

If you have ensured that your scraping activities are permissible, you might want to use a user-agent that identifies your bot in a truthful and transparent way. Many websites monitor for non-standard user-agents and may block them if they are associated with scraping activity. However, using a standard web browser's user-agent may help you blend in with regular traffic. It's often a balancing act between transparency and mimicking a real user's behavior.

Here's how you might set a user-agent in Python using the requests library:

import requests

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36',
}

response = requests.get('https://www.zoominfo.com/', headers=headers)

# Make sure to handle the response appropriately
# Check for status code, content, etc.

And here's an example in JavaScript using the node-fetch package:

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36',
};

fetch('https://www.zoominfo.com/', { headers: headers })
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(body => {
      // Process the body
  })
  .catch(error => {
      // Handle any errors
  });

Remember that the user-agent string provided above is just an example, representing a common web browser (as of the time the string was captured). You should use an up-to-date user-agent that corresponds to the browser you want to mimic. You can find your current browser's user-agent by searching "what is my user-agent" in your browser, or by checking the request headers in your browser's developer tools.

Keep in mind that web scraping can be a legal gray area, and you should always conduct it ethically and responsibly. If Zoominfo provides an API for accessing their data, it's preferable and safer to use that instead of scraping the website directly.