installed a global opener for urlopen - works great!

Author: mwhickson

tuipod/models/podcast.py

@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ def remove_episode(self, url: str) -> None:
                 break
 
     def get_episode_list(self) -> []:
-        req = urllib.request.Request(self.url)
-        req.add_header("User-Agent", "Mozilla/9.9 (github.com/mwhickson/tuipod) Chrome/999.9.9.9 Gecko/99990101 Firefox/999 Safari/999.9")
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(self.url) as response:
             result = response.read()
 
         episodes = ET.fromstring(result)

tuipod/ui/podcast_app.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import json
 
+from urllib.request import build_opener, install_opener
+
 from textual import on
 from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
 from textual.binding import Binding
@@ -42,6 +44,12 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.current_podcast = None
         self.current_episode = None
 
+        # REF: https://theorangeone.net/posts/urllib-useragent/#global-opener
+        # NOTE: _opener is not available for import, but it's not necessary (presumably within an app context)
+        opener = build_opener()
+        install_opener(opener)
+        opener.addheaders = [("User-Agent", "Mozilla/9.9 (github.com/mwhickson/tuipod) Chrome/999.9.9.9 Gecko/99990101 Firefox/999 Safari/999.9")]
+
     def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
         yield Header(icon="#", show_clock=True, time_format="%I:%M %p")