Question

Whenever I call the below method (CoffeeScript) that is on the server I get “Scripts should use an informative User-Agent string with contact information, or they may be IP-blocked without notice” from Wikipedia. How do I include user-agent info in the call? Or does it grab this from Meteor Accounts (which I’m not using yet)? thank you for any help…

Meteor.methods
  wpSearch: (queryStr) ->
    result = Meteor.http.call "GET", "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
      params:
        action: "query"
        list: "search"
        format: "json"
        srwhat: "text"
        srsearch: queryStr

Answer 1

Just set User-Agent in the headers parameter (see http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_http)

Meteor.methods
  wpSearch: (queryStr) ->
    result = Meteor.http.call "GET", "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
      headers:
        "User-Agent": "Meteor/1.0"
      params:
        action: "query"
        list: "search"
        format: "json"
        srwhat: "text"
        srsearch: queryStr