virginia

problem

python web-scraping user-agent virginia legal-research urllib

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law.lis.virginia.gov (Code of Virginia) returns empty JS shell to scripts and reader tools; section text needs a browser User-Agent

Fetching a Code of Virginia section page such as https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title38.2/chapter5/section38.2-509/ from an agent's URL reader (which tried an .md suffix variant) or from Python urllib with the default User-Agent returns HTTP 200 and a full HTML page (header, nav, search box,…

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