vkontakte-user scrapes get redirected to badbrowser.php

[4b5urdX]

Describe the bug

Scraping for a VKontakte User returns 0 results, while searched accounts do exist.

How to reproduce

snscrape vkontakte-user navalny

Expected behaviour

Get the desired data on the account.

Screenshots and recordings

No response

Operating system

Ubuntu 20.04

Python version: output of python3 --version

python 3.10.12

snscrape version: output of snscrape --version

snscrape 0.7.0.20230622

Scraper

vkontakte-user

How are you using snscrape?

CLI (snscrape ... as a command, e.g. in a terminal)

Backtrace

No response

Log output

2023-09-23 21:42:16.797 INFO snscrape.modules.vkontakte Retrieving initial data
2023-09-23 21:42:16.831 INFO snscrape.base Retrieving https://vk.com/navalny
2023-09-23 21:42:17.599 INFO snscrape.base Retrieved https://vk.com/navalny (redirected to https://vk.com/badbrowser.php): 200
2023-09-23 21:42:17.604 INFO snscrape.modules.vkontakte Wall has no posts
2023-09-23 21:42:17.604 INFO snscrape._cli Done, found 0 results

Dump of locals

No response

Additional context

If you open https://vk.com/badbrowser.php it states the browser in use is outdated. While visiting the site with my default browser it works fine, however snscrape requests always get redirected, which is probably why the 0 results bug occurs. So there seems to be problem with the request itself.

[JustAnotherArchivist]

Thanks. This is likely user agent detection on VK's side.

Relatedly, the scraper was already broken before: #737