Getting 403 error on vps

[ashwinstr]

Showing 403 error when trying to search for lyrics while test running on github workflow

Expected behavior
was expecting lyrics from the api

To Reproduce
the code is as follows:

import lyricsgenius
if GENIUS is not None:
    genius = lyricsgenius.Genius(GENIUS)
song = "hawayein"
artist = "arijit singh"
songs = genius.search_songs(f"{artist} {song}")
song_id =  songs["hits"][0]["result"]["id"]
await message.reply(genius.lyrics(song_id))```

the error is

```Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lyricsgenius/api/base.py", line 80, in _make_request
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 953, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://genius.com/Arijit-singh-hawayein-lyrics```

**Version info**
 - Version: 3.0.1
 - OS: windows

**Additional context**
same error comes after directly trying to get the lyrics with:

```import GENIUS
import lyricsgenius
if GENIUS is not None:
    genius = lyricsgenius.Genius(GENIUS)
song = "hawayein"
artist = "arijit singh"
songs = genius.search_songs(f"{artist} {song}")
lyrics = songs.lyrics```

[TabulateJarl8]

I get the same error on an Azure Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I also get the error when I write the scraping code myself, but with an added user agent header. Can't seem to find away around this one

[ju]

having this same isuse on Ubuntu 20.04

[TabulateJarl8]

I was looking at the issues yesterday and saw that the same thing was reported in #190. There doesn't seem to be a solution unfortunately, so I switched to using some other API which actually let me retrieve lyrics instead of having to scrape a website, which was https://lyrics.ovh/

[owocado]

I am now getting the same error on oracle VPS, was working on same VPS for months until today.

[Mohammad9760]

I am getting the same error now ... frustrating

[AkiArasaki]

I'm getting the same error on oracle VPS ubuntu 22.04

[nsde]

Same here :(

[sofijakrivokapic]

Hey! I am actually getting 403 error when I try to run .search_artist() . The token is correct, and the code works on .search_songs(), but not when I try to search artist. Is anyone having a similar problem or has already found the solution?

[allerter]

This issue has gotten worse over the past year or so because Genius has tightened its captcha rules. As a result, many VPS users keep getting 403 errors more often. Currently, the only solution is to run lyricsgenius on your own machine so your requests don't get 403 errors.
As for a possible resolution, maybe fiddling with the request headers or using different IPs to make the requests could help us avoid this issue.

[sofijakrivokapic]

Yes, indeed, it only works locally. Thank you.

[Lionheartxx]

I have the same error!!!
If i deploy my telegram bot project to server i get 403 forbidden error but when i run local in PyCharm everything works
This my Code:

import numpy as np
from requests.exceptions import HTTPError, Timeout
import lyricsgenius

from aiogram import types
from data.config import GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN,GENIUS_CLIENT_ID,GENIUS_CLIENT_SECRET,GENIUS_REDIRECT_URI
from keyboards.inline.SelectButton import SelectSong
from aiogram.types import CallbackQuery
from aiogram.dispatcher.filters import Command
from aiogram.dispatcher.filters.state import State, StatesGroup
from aiogram.dispatcher import FSMContext

from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session

from loader import dp

class OAuth2Genius(StatesGroup):
    waiting_for_code = State()


GENIUS_API_BASE_URL = 'https://api.genius.com'

def create_genius_session(token=None, state=None):
    client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=GENIUS_CLIENT_ID)
    genius3 = OAuth2Session(client=client, token=token, redirect_uri=GENIUS_REDIRECT_URI, state=state)
    return genius3

@dp.message_handler(Command("start"))
async def start_auth(message: types.Message):
    # Start the Genius OAuth2 flow
    genius3 = create_genius_session()
    authorization_url, state = genius3.authorization_url('https://api.genius.com/oauth/authorize')

    await message.answer("To authorize, click on this [link]({})".format(authorization_url), parse_mode='Markdown')
    await OAuth2Genius.waiting_for_code.set()

@dp.message_handler(state=OAuth2Genius.waiting_for_code)
async def receive_auth_code(message: types.Message, state: FSMContext):
    # Receive the Genius OAuth2 code and exchange it for a token
    genius3 = create_genius_session(state=state)
    token = genius3.fetch_token('https://api.genius.com/oauth/token', authorization_response=message.text,
                               client_secret=GENIUS_CLIENT_SECRET)

    # Save the token to use later in your requests
    await state.finish()
    await message.answer("Authorization successful! You can now use Genius API.")
    # Store the token somewhere secure for future use (e.g., a database)

    global genius2
    genius2 = create_genius_session(token=token)

genius = lyricsgenius.Genius(GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN)
numbered_songs = []

@dp.message_handler()
async def Send_List(message: types.Message):
    def ListOfSongs(search_songs):
        try:
            song = genius.search_songs(f"{search_songs}")

            list_of_artist = []
            list_of_song = []

            for hit in song['hits']:
                list_of_artist.append(hit['result']['primary_artist']['name'])
                list_of_song.append(hit['result']['title'])

            arr = np.dstack((list_of_artist, list_of_song))
            len_arr = len(arr[0])

            for res in arr[0][range(0, len_arr)]:
                numbered_songs.append(f"{res[0]} - {res[1]}")

        except HTTPError as e:
            print(e.errno)
            print(e.args[0])
            print(e.args[1])
        except Timeout:
            pass

    if len(numbered_songs) == 0:
        ListOfSongs(search_songs=message.text)
    else:
        numbered_songs.clear()
        ListOfSongs(search_songs=message.text)

    result_count = min(len(numbered_songs), 10)

    if result_count >= 1:
        await message.answer(
            f"<b>Результаты 1-{result_count}</b>\n\n"
            + "\n".join(f"{i + 1}.  {numbered_songs[i]}" for i in range(result_count)),
            reply_markup=SelectSong
        )
    else:
        await message.answer("Такой песен не найдено 🤔")

@dp.callback_query_handler(lambda call: call.data.isdigit())
async def Send_Lyric(call: CallbackQuery):
    index = int(call.data)

    if 1 <= index <= len(numbered_songs):
        await call.message.delete()
        await call.message.answer("🔎 Ищу тексты песен...")

        full_text = await GetText(numbered_songs[index - 1])

        if full_text:
            # Telegramning maksimal belgilar soni 4040 ta
            if len(full_text) <= 4020:
                await call.message.answer(full_text)
            else:
                short_text = full_text[:4020]
                await call.message.answer(short_text + f"...\n\n<i>через @MusixMBot</i>")
        else:
            await call.message.answer("Извините, такого текста не найдено 🫥")

async def GetText(song_name):
    artist_name, song_get_name = map(str.strip, song_name.split("-"))

    try:
        artist = genius.search_artist(artist_name, max_songs=1)
        song_text = artist.song(song_get_name)
        text = song_text.lyrics

        return f"<code>{artist_name} - {song_get_name}</code>\n\n{text[:-5]}\n\n<i>через @MusixMBot</i>"

    except HTTPError as e:
        print(e.errno)
        print(e.args[0])
        print(e.args[1])

    except Timeout:
        pass

    return None

I used the liyricsgenius package. But I don't know how to integrate Genius authentication method into Code. If anyone knows, please help!!!