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Usually when performing an internet challenge, there's no problem with having to specify a user agent, but when it comes to dealing with Google, it changes.

Google blacklists the Urllib user agent, presumably to stop spambots, so you have to specify a user agent. This takes up many bytes, and is frankly rather annoying.

Example 1. Example 2. Example 3.

Note: I have updated my Python answers to use the tip suggested below

So how do you get around this problem using the shortest number of bytes?

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Are you sure this question isn't missing a language tag? \$\endgroup\$ – Peter Taylor Aug 7 '15 at 15:07
  • \$\begingroup\$ @PeterTaylor Well although the question is oriented towards Python, I was hoping that the solution could be used to help with other languages \$\endgroup\$ – Beta Decay Aug 7 '15 at 15:12
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The requests module, if allowed, is much shorter and easier than urllib in Python (2 and 3):

__import__('requests').get('url').text

On my computer, the user agent defaults to:

python-requests/2.3.0 CPython/3.4.3 Darwin/14.3.0
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