After making sure that your Node.js environment is set up correctly and your project initialized, run the following code:
import got from 'got';
(async () => {
const response = await got('https://httpbin.org/headers')
console.log(response.body)
})()
This way we can see how the most basic GET request looks like. The result should be:
{
"headers": {
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "got (https://github.com/sindresorhus/got)",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-63c93ff5-0c352d6319620b3d6b46df02"
}
}
This looks very different from what we saw in our browser. The User-Agent alone makes it really easy for a server to detect that the request is automated.
Now let’s pass our custom headers and send the request again:
import got from 'got';
(async () => {
const custom_headers = {
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"Cache-Control": "no-cache",
"Cookie": "amp_d915a9=sd12OA1w0P4xMKsMYSmY9n.MXVDWTJjd3BXdmRkQ3J0YUpuTkx3OE5JcXVKMw==..1ggrl757h.1ggrl75ci.0.1o.1o; amp_adc4c4=P3ZIfUgU8qzSHI-y0gZvbk.MXVDWTJjd3BXdmRkQ3J0YUpuTkx3OE5JcXVKMw==..1gn51hk3v.1gn51lql7.0.e.e",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"Pragma": "no-cache",
"Sec-Ch-Ua": "\"Not_A Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Google Chrome\";v=\"109\", \"Chromium\";v=\"109\"",
"Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0",
"Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform": "\"Windows\"",
"Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document",
"Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate",
"Sec-Fetch-Site": "none",
"Sec-Fetch-User": "?1",
"Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-63c93e34-1ad0141279d49bfc28fb058e"
}
const response = await got('https://httpbin.org/headers', {
headers: custom_headers
})
console.log(response.body)
})()
By running the script again, you should notice that now our request looks like it’s sent from a real Chrome browser even though we didn’t open an actual one.
