How can I modify my Python script to include a User-Agent header to mimic a legitimate browser?

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How can I modify my Python script to include a User-Agent header to mimic a legitimate browser?
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Cloudflare often blocks requests with generic or missing User-Agent headers. You can set the User-Agent header in your `requests` library like this: `headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'}`. Use a more specific User-Agent string for better results. Rotating User-Agents is also a good practice to avoid being easily identified as a bot.