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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion learning_resources/etl/podcast.py
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CONFIG_FILE_REPO = "mitodl/open-podcast-data"
CONFIG_FILE_FOLDER = "podcasts"
TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"
BROWSER_UA_HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"
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The user-agent string references Chrome version 39.0.2171.95 from 2014, which is extremely outdated. Consider using a more recent user-agent string to avoid potential blocking by servers that filter out very old browsers.

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"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

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}

log = logging.getLogger()

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for playlist_config in configs:
rss_url = playlist_config["rss_url"]
try:
response = requests.get(rss_url) # noqa: S113
response = requests.get(rss_url, headers=BROWSER_UA_HEADERS) # noqa: S113
response.raise_for_status()

feed = bs(response.content, "xml")
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