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error HTTP Error 403: Forbidden - local_bit - Nov-14-2020
I am using API for a long time on https://localbitcoins.net/
Since November 13th, when using the urllib library for Python, an error appeared
I'm from Belarus
Error:url='https://localbitcoins.net/sell-bitcoins-online/BYN/.json'
orders = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 222, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 531, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 641, in http_response
‘http’, request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 569, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 503, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “D:\Program Files\python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 649, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: ForbiddenPython 3.7.3
pip list
Package Version
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asyncio 3.4.3
certifi 2019.3.9
chardet 3.0.4
eth-hash 0.2.0
eth-typing 2.1.0
idna 2.8
lbcapi3 1.0.0
pip 19.1.1
pycryptodome 3.8.2
requests 2.22.0
setuptools 40.8.0
toolz 0.9.0
urllib3 1.25.3
RE: error HTTP Error 403: Forbidden - ndc85430 - Nov-14-2020
Look at the response body to see if there's any further information. Also, if the API has documentation, you might like to check that to see under what circumstances it returns 403.