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HTTP Error 403: Forbidden #1

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twigbranch opened this issue Dec 21, 2012 · 4 comments
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HTTP Error 403: Forbidden #1

twigbranch opened this issue Dec 21, 2012 · 4 comments
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Getting repeated "HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" and no ranking results. Any idea why?
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jparise commented Dec 21, 2012

Everything appears to be working for me. Are you perhaps outside of the United States in a country without an official App Store presence?

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In the US. But looks like they banned my IP- not sure why, is running this 2-4 times / day excessive?

Monkey patching with this code allows you to choose a different source IP if available:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1150332/source-interface-with-python-and-urllib2

Beyond this- I'm noticing a number of 301 redirect using the itunes.apple.com url as-is.

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It appears that after numerous requests with the various genre and store IDs which are met with 301 redirects, the IP becomes banned, and instead receives 403 forbidden. I'm wondering if the requests are coming in too quickly so it exceeds some threshold they set.

jparise added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 3, 2013
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Support setting the HTTP connection source address.
b21ab11 
This is controlled via a new `--source` command line argument.  This
feature is only available for Python 2.7 and later.

See #1
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jparise commented Feb 3, 2013

I just pushed a change that allows the HTTP connection's source address to be set using a new command line argument: --source. Hopefully that will make it easier for you to work around the problems that you're seeing.

I don't have any new information to share about the larger problem, however. I'm definitely open to suggestions.

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