Http Error 403 Request Disallowed By Robots.txt
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Using Mechanize for Scraping, encountered HTTP Error 403 up vote 0 down vote favorite After getting mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt when using Mechanize, added code from Screen scraping: getting around "HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt" to ignore robots.txt, but now am receiving this error: mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Is there a way around this error? (Current code) br = mechanize.Browser() br.set_handle_robots(False) python web-scraping mechanize robots.txt share|improve this question asked Oct 4 '15 at 12:40 McLeodx 324113 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote Adding this line of code underneath the two lines of current code posted above solved the issue I was having: br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')] share|improve this answer answered Oct 4 '15 at 12:56 McLeodx 324113 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged python web-scraping mechanize robots.txt or ask your own question. asked 1 year ago viewed 434 times active 1 year ago Blog Stack Overflow Podcast #91 - Can You Stump Nick Craver? Linked 34 Screen scraping: getting around “HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt” Related 6Python urlopen connection aborted - urlopen error [Errno 10053]0Mechanize (Python 2.7 on Windows) - Stay logged in between requests for the whole day. How?4HTTP 403 error retrieving robots.txt with mechanize12Extremely strange Web-Scraping issue: Post request not behaving as expected1Python Mechanize HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt3Scraping Data from Facebook with Python5Navigating a website in python, scraping, and posting0python: how