Merge pull request #707 from Thetwam/issue/706-user-agent

Add User-Agent

Author: Thetwam

AUTHORS.md

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 - Craig Thompson [@craigdsthompson](https://github.com/craigdsthompson)
 - Dalton Durst [@UniversalSuperBox](https://github.com/UniversalSuperBox)
 - Damian Sweeney [@damianfs](https://github.com/damianfs)
+- Daniel Bosk [@dbosk](https://github.com/dbosk)
 - Daniel Brinkman [@DanBrink91](https://github.com/DanBrink91)
 - Daniel Grobani [@dgrobani](https://github.com/dgrobani)
 - Daniel Molares [@dmols](https://github.com/dmols)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### General
 
 - Updated `RateLimitExceeded` exception to trigger on HTTP 429 instead of old 403.
+- Add a default User-Agent header
 
 ## [3.4.0] - 2025-11-10
 

canvasapi/requester.py

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def request(
         _url=None,
         _kwargs=None,
         json=False,
-        **kwargs
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         """
         Make a request to the Canvas API and return the response.
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ def request(
         :type json: `bool`
         :rtype: :class:`requests.Response`
         """
+        from canvasapi import __version__
+
         # Check for specific URL endpoints available from Canvas. If not
         # specified, pass the given URL and move on.
         if not _url:
@@ -185,6 +187,9 @@ def request(
             auth_header = {"Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(self.access_token)}
             headers.update(auth_header)
 
+        if "User-Agent" not in headers:
+            headers["User-Agent"] = f"python-canvasapi/{__version__}"
+
         # Convert kwargs into list of 2-tuples and combine with _kwargs.
         _kwargs = _kwargs or []
         _kwargs.extend(kwargs.items())