From 3cb46f1bacbb62678b5e14332f55e2e9c9d40b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kavin <20838718+FireMasterK@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:58:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Send an identifiable user-agent.

---
 main.go | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index b350d73..83a42e6 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ var client = http.Client{
 }
 
 func testUrl(url string) (*http.Response, error) {
-	resp, err := client.Get(url)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Piped-Instances-API/(https://github.com/TeamPiped/instances-api)")
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return resp, err
 	}
@@ -248,7 +253,13 @@ func monitorInstances() {
 	// do forever
 	for {
 		// send a request to get markdown from GitHub
-		resp, err := http.Get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/TeamPiped/Piped-Frontend/Instances.md")
+		req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/TeamPiped/Piped-Frontend/Instances.md", nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Print(err)
+			continue
+		}
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Piped-Instances-API/(https://github.com/TeamPiped/instances-api)")
+		resp, err := client.Do(req)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Print(err)
 			continue