Golfing with User Agents 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?
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