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You can’t impersonate search engine crawlers, because the server can verify that it’s really a search engine crawler

See this from google: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verify-google-requests

Here, duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot