Bandcamp requires User-Agent to access

[tnachen]

Bandcamp return 403 without a proper User-Agent, so getting bandcamp metadata fails now.

[Miserlou]

Good one

[brachna]

True. Easy to fix using requests.session object. download_file already can work with it.

[Miserlou]

I also haven't able to repro this, needs example URL.

[brachna]

For example, https://jakob.bandcamp.com/album/solace-remastered

[Ristellise]

FYI Any updated browser would work.. such as chrome or firefox.

[Evolution0]

Any track, album, or Bandcamp CDN server url (popplers# -> p#.bcbits.com) will cause you to run into this issue now and yes using a User-Agent fixes it (Its how I got bandcamp-dl working again)

Otherwise you get a 403.

[tnachen]

I manually fixed it in my local soundscrape by setting a user agent when getting the metadata and downloading each mp3 link.

[Miserlou]

@tnachen - want to submit a PR? Thanks!