How to set electron UserAgent

I need to set the UserAgent in electron to include the touch flag since I am writing the application for touch screens and it doesn't seem to auto detect that it is running on a touch screen.

Any help would be nice, I already tried setting it in the BrowserWindow.loadURL options param.

4 Answers

You can set the User-Agent header in the main process using onBeforeSendHeaders:

import { session } from 'electron'; session.defaultSession.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders((details, callback) => { details.requestHeaders['User-Agent'] = 'SuperDuperAgent'; callback({ cancel: false, requestHeaders: details.requestHeaders }); }); 
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Just use an option object when loading the URL.

function createWindow () { win = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600}); win.loadURL('http://www.whoishostingthis.com/tools/user-agent/', {userAgent: 'Chrome'}); win.on('closed', () => { win = null }); } 
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Before loading file, you can call BrowserWindowInstance.webContents.setUserAgent()

mainWindow.webContents.setUserAgent(mainWindow.webContents.getUserAgent() + " Custom Value"); mainWindow.loadFile('renderer/index.html'); 

Works with electron 3.0.4 Previous solutions didn't work for me.

Electron 8.2.5 Update

In newer versions, setUserAgent method will be deprecated. Instead, use this;

mainWindow.webContents.userAgent //to get mainWindow.webContents.userAgent = "Something" //to set 
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Just use this if you're using a <webview> tag, this works better for me

<webview src="https://www.github.com/" useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; AS; rv:11.0) like Gecko"></webview> 

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