Downloading scikit-learn news dataset gives HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[cast42]

Description of the bug:

newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='train')
newsgroups_test = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='test')

# View list of class names for dataset
newsgroups_train.target_names

gives following error:

HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
[<ipython-input-3-f3476b42207e>](https://localhost:8080/#) in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='train')
      2 newsgroups_test = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='test')
      3 
      4 # View list of class names for dataset
      5 newsgroups_train.target_names

9 frames
[/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)
    641 class HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(BaseHandler):
    642     def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):
--> 643         raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
    644 
    645 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):

HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Actual vs expected behavior:

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[cast42]

This issue has been resolved

[Skyisclear]

the code still gives me the same error.
it was done in google colab.

`
HTTPError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 4>()
2
3 # news_data = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='all',random_state=156)
----> 4 newsgroup_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='train')
5 newsgroup_test = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='test')

9 frames
/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py in http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)
641 class HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(BaseHandler):
642 def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):
--> 643 raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
644
645 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):

HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
`

[ssangttuce]

I have same error.

HTTPError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 4>()
2 categories = ["alt.atheism", "talk.religion.misc", "comp.graphics", "sci.space"]
3 # train set을 가져옴
----> 4 newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(
5 data_home=".20newsgroups",
6 subset="train",

9 frames
/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py in http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)
641 class HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(BaseHandler):
642 def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):
--> 643 raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
644
645 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):

HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I think this error occurs randomly...

[corngk]

I also got the same 403 Forbidden error in Google Colab.

[WillMusing]

same error when running from colab:

11 frames
/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py in http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)
641 class HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(BaseHandler):
642 def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):
--> 643 raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
644
645 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):