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Manas Chaturvedi
Manas Chaturvedi

Reputation: 5540

Google App Engine: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I'm using Google Books API to integrate with an E-commerce site that I'm developing. The idea is to let the users search for books using a search bar, and then calling the Google API to output the number of books corresponding to the search keyword.

However, I get a 403 Forbidden error after I click submit after entering my query in the form. This is strange, because this never happened when I was testing my application on the localhost. Here's the code for my application:

main.py

class SearchHandler(Handler):
    def get(self):
        self.render("search.html")
    def post(self):
        keey = self.request.get('keey')
        finaal = "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=" + keey + "&key=MY_APP_KEY"
        f = urllib2.urlopen(finaal).read()
        self.render("jsony.html", finaal = finaal)

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication(('/search', SearchHandler)], debug=True)

search.html

<html>
<head>
    <title>Web Mining</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form method = "post">
        Book Name:<input type = "text" name = "keey">
        <input type = "submit">
    </form>
</body>
</html>

jsony.html

<html>
<head>
    <title>Web Mining</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form method = "post">
        {{finaal}}
    </form>
</body>

Now, the jsony.html is still incomplete. All I'm doing now is displaying the URL which contains the outputted json in it's raw, unprocessed form.

What seems to be causing this 403 error to arise after I deploy my application ?

EDIT 1:

The problem resolves when I remove the following line from my main python file:

f = urllib2.urlopen(finaal).read()

However, I would be needing my API's URL in order to extract data from its source code. What's happening ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2039

Answers (1)

Bill Prin
Bill Prin

Reputation: 2518

Try adding &country=US to the URL query string.

Upvotes: 1

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