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Pretend to be facebook and twitter bots in link prefetcher #3602

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion src/plugins/irc-events/link.js
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Expand Up @@ -306,8 +306,11 @@ function removePreview(msg, preview) {

function getRequestHeaders(headers) {
const formattedHeaders = {
// Certain websites like Amazon only add <meta> tags to known bots,
// lets pretend to be them to get the metadata
"User-Agent":
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; The Lounge IRC Client; +https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge)",
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; The Lounge IRC Client; +https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge)" +
" facebookexternalhit/1.1 Twitterbot/1.0",
Accept: headers.accept || "*/*",
"X-Purpose": "preview",
};
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