CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonweb
user12044423
user12044423

Reputation:

Request an text document from the web

Does anybody know why is it doing this error? I can't seem to request the web page

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

This is my code

from urllib.request import urlopen

txt_file = urlopen("https://www.py4e.com/code3/mbox.txt")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29

Answers (1)

Alterlife
Alterlife

Reputation: 6625

This server seems to be configured to reject requests without a user agent. Send a user agent and it works correctly:

import requests

url = 'https://www.py4e.com/code3/mbox.txt'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.content)

Upvotes: 2

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