lesswrong.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests

query = """
    {
      posts(input: {
        terms: {
          view: "top"
          limit: 50
          meta: null
        }
      }) {
        results {
          _id
          title
        }
      }
    }
"""


# request made without setting a user agent; defaults to 'python-requests/2.28.1'
r1 = requests.get("https://www.lesswrong.com/graphql", params={'query': query})

# request made using a typical browser's user agent
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0"
r2 = requests.get("https://www.lesswrong.com/graphql", params={'query': query}, headers={'User-Agent': user_agent})

print(r1.status_code)  # prints 403
print(r2.status_code)  # prints 200