trouble getting google through urllib

Tue Dec 19 02:40:20 EST 2006

So I'm writing a bot in python that will be able to do all kinds of
weird shit. One of those weird shit is the ability to translate text
from one language to another, which I figured I'd use google translate
to do. Here is the section for translation that I'm having trouble
with:

elif(line[abuindex+1]=="translate"):            #if user inputs
translate
    text=""
    for i in range(abuindex+2, len(line)):            #concantenate all
text to be translated
        text=text+"%20"+line[i]

t_url="http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text='"+text+"'&hl=en&langpair=es|en&tbb=1"
    print "url: %s" % t_url            #debug msg
    urlfi=urllib.urlopen(t_url)        #make a file object from what
google sends
    t_html=urlfi.read( )            #read from urlfi file
    print "html: %s" % t_html         #debug msg
    print "text: %s" % text            #debug msg

This uses urllib to open the url and abuindex+2 is the first word in
the string to be translated and line is an array of the message sent to
the bot from the server. After this I'll add something to parse through
the html and take out the part that is the translated text. The problem
is that when I run this the html output is the following (I asked it to
translate como estas here):

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
<style></style>
<script>
</script>
</head>
<body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff>
<table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td
rowspan=3 width=1% nowrap>
<b><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>G</font><font face=times
color=#c41200 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#f3c518
size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>g</font><font
face=times color=#30a72f size=10>l</font><font face=times color=#c41200
size=10>e</font>  </b>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor=#3366cc><font face=arial,sans-serif
color=#ffffff><b>Error</b></td></tr>
<tr><td> </td></tr></table>
<blockquote>
<H1>Forbidden</H1>
Your client does not have permission to get URL
<code>/translate_t?text='%20como%20estas'&hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&tbb=1</code>
from this server.

<p>
</blockquote>
<table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td
bgcolor=#3366cc><img alt="" width=1 height=4></td></tr></table>
</body></html>

Does anyone know how I would get the bot to have permission to get the
url? When I put the url in on firefox it works fine. I noticed that in
the output html that google gave me it replaced some of the characters
in the url with different stuff like the "&amp" and "%7C", so I'm
thinking thats the problem, does anyone know how I would make it keep
the url as I intended it to be?