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How would you differentiate between a human sending a tweet via the API and a bot?
by timvdalen 5y ago
How would you differentiate between a human sending a tweet via the API and a bot?
- capableweb 5y agoUser-agents
- hnlmorg 5y ago- User-Agent is an optional HTTP header - RESTful APIs don't even expect a User-Agent - User-Agent is customisable (ie bad bots can trivially use an array of seemingly authentic strings) - Even Google are moving away from using User-Agent for identification.