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Rorschach
Rorschach

Reputation: 3802

HTTP Error 403: Forbidden on urllib2 request

I am using python's urllib2 and bs4. But urllib2 is running into some issues. Certain sites such as: http://dannijo.com/jewelry/necklaces/paloma.html

http://www.freepeople.com/

only return the error show below

HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I have seen this question on stack overflow: urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. But the hdrs which they suggest do not get past the 403 Forbidden.

If anyone knows a better hdr or if they can let me know what is causing this issue it would much appreciated.

This is the code that I currently have:

    hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
       'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
       'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
       'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
       'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
       'Connection': 'keep-alive'} 
    req = urllib2.Request(url,headers=hdr)
    page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read())

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1290

Answers (1)

JuniorCompressor
JuniorCompressor

Reputation: 20025

You don't actually use req instance. So do the following:

soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(req).read())

Upvotes: 1

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