feat(cli): identify jobnet and jobdanmark API requests with an honest User-Agent (#283)

* fix(cli): send User-Agent on jobnet and jobdanmark API requests

apiFetch/apiPost hit the portals' APIs without a User-Agent header, while every other Danish-portal CLI sends one on purpose (jobbank exports USER_AGENT and its tests assert it; jobindex sets it on htmlFetch). Requests without one are rejected by the portals' bot filters.

* fix(cli): satisfy strict typecheck in user-agent regression test

* refactor(cli): reframe user-agent tests as honest self-identification

* docs(changelog): entry for #283 user-agent self-identification

.agents/skills/jobdanmark-search/cli/src/helpers.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 export const BASE_URL = "https://jobdanmark.dk"
+export const USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; jobdanmark-cli/1.0)"
 
 export async function apiFetch<T>(path: string, params?: Record<string, string>): Promise<T> {
   let url = `${BASE_URL}${path}`
@@ -10,7 +11,10 @@ export async function apiFetch<T>(path: string, params?: Record<string, string>)
   const maxRetries = 6
   let delay = 500
   for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++) {
-    const response = await fetch(url, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000) })
+    const response = await fetch(url, {
+      headers: { "User-Agent": USER_AGENT },
+      signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000),
+    })
     if (response.status === 429 || response.status >= 500) {
       if (attempt === maxRetries) {
         throw new Error(`API request failed: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`)
@@ -38,6 +42,7 @@ export async function apiPost<T>(path: string, body: unknown): Promise<T> {
       method: "POST",
       headers: {
         "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        "User-Agent": USER_AGENT,
       },
       body: JSON.stringify(body),
       signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000),

.agents/skills/jobdanmark-search/cli/tests/user-agent.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { apiFetch, apiPost, USER_AGENT } from "../src/helpers";
+
+// Bun's fetch injects an anonymous default User-Agent (Bun/1.3.10) when code
+// sets none. This CLI should say who is asking, in the honest style jobindex
+// already uses on htmlFetch ("Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; jobindex-cli/1.0)").
+// Assert the header is present on every request. Fails on the pre-change code.
+const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+afterEach(() => {
+  globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+});
+
+function headerValue(headers: RequestInit["headers"], name: string): string | null {
+  if (headers instanceof Headers) return headers.get(name);
+  if (Array.isArray(headers)) {
+    const found = headers.find(([k]) => k === name);
+    return found ? String(found[1]) : null;
+  }
+  const value = headers?.[name];
+  return typeof value === "string" ? value : null;
+}
+
+describe("apiFetch user agent", () => {
+  test("sends a User-Agent header", async () => {
+    let init: RequestInit | undefined;
+    globalThis.fetch = (async (_url: string | URL | Request, i?: RequestInit) => {
+      init = i;
+      return new Response("{}", { status: 200 });
+    }) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+    await apiFetch("/api/search/autocomplete", { q: "it" });
+    expect(headerValue(init?.headers, "User-Agent")).toBe(USER_AGENT);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("apiPost user agent", () => {
+  test("sends a User-Agent header alongside Content-Type", async () => {
+    let init: RequestInit | undefined;
+    globalThis.fetch = (async (_url: string | URL | Request, i?: RequestInit) => {
+      init = i;
+      return new Response("{}", { status: 200 });
+    }) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+    await apiPost("/api/jobsearch/search/1", { q: "it" });
+    expect(headerValue(init?.headers, "User-Agent")).toBe(USER_AGENT);
+    expect(headerValue(init?.headers, "Content-Type")).toBe("application/json");
+  });
+});

.agents/skills/jobnet-search/cli/src/helpers.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 export const BASE_URL = "https://jobnet.dk/bff"
+export const USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; jobnet-cli/1.0)"
 
 export async function apiFetch<T>(path: string, params?: Record<string, string>): Promise<T> {
   let url = `${BASE_URL}${path}`
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ export async function apiFetch<T>(path: string, params?: Record<string, string>)
   for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++) {
     const response = await fetch(url, {
       headers: {
+        "User-Agent": USER_AGENT,
         "x-csrf": "1",
       },
       signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000),

.agents/skills/jobnet-search/cli/tests/user-agent.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { apiFetch, USER_AGENT } from "../src/helpers";
+
+// Bun's fetch injects an anonymous default User-Agent (Bun/1.3.10) when code
+// sets none. This CLI should say who is asking, in the honest style jobindex
+// already uses on htmlFetch ("Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; jobindex-cli/1.0)").
+// Assert the header is present on every request. Fails on the pre-change code.
+const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+afterEach(() => {
+  globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+});
+
+describe("apiFetch user agent", () => {
+  test("sends a User-Agent header", async () => {
+    let init: RequestInit | undefined;
+    globalThis.fetch = (async (_url: string | URL | Request, i?: RequestInit) => {
+      init = i;
+      return new Response("{}", { status: 200 });
+    }) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+    await apiFetch("/search");
+    const headers = init?.headers as Record<string, string> | Headers | undefined;
+    const value =
+      headers instanceof Headers ? headers.get("User-Agent") : headers?.["User-Agent"];
+    expect(value).toBe(USER_AGENT);
+  });
+});

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ per-file diff commands.
   during #275 (vetoes reported in console output but `language_gate: null` on every persisted
   entry). Mirrors the existing `gaps`/`strengths` pinning pattern. No behavior change.
 
+- **The jobnet and jobdanmark CLIs identify themselves on every API request** (#283) - their
+  `apiFetch`/`apiPost` wrappers now send an explicit `User-Agent` (`jobnet-cli/1.0`,
+  `jobdanmark-cli/1.0`) instead of Bun's anonymous default token, matching the honest
+  self-identification jobindex already uses on `htmlFetch`. The new `user-agent.test.ts`
+  suites assert the header on every request wrapper. No response behavior observed to
+  change.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **Negative and fractional filter flags are rejected in the Danish portal CLIs** (#281) -