HTTP request error with urlopen

[Jonas Galvez]

Try:

import re
import urllib2
url = 'http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&q=ipod&btnG=Search'
user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
headers = {'User-Agent' : user_agent}
req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
file_source=open("google_source.txt", 'w')
file_source.write(urllib2.urlopen(req).read())
file_source.close()

I think Google blocks the User-Agent urllib2 sends.

--Jonas Galvez, http://jonasgalvez.com.br/log

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:52 AM, spandana g <spandanagella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
>
>           I have written a code to get the page source of the google search
> page .. this is working for other urls. I have this problem with
>
> import re
> from urllib2 import urlopen
> string='http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&q=ipod&btnG=Search'
> file_source=file("google_source.txt",'w')
> file_source.write(urlopen(string).read())
> page_content=file_source.readlines()
>
> Traceback (most recent call last) :
> File "C:/Python25/google.py", line 5,in <module>
>     file_source.write(urlopen(string).read())
> File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 124 , in urlopen
>     return__opener.open(url,  data)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line  387 , in open
>    response =meth(req, response)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 498 , in http_response
>    'http',   request,  response,  code,  msg,  hdrs)
> File  "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py",  line 425,  in error
>    return self._call_chain(*args)
> File  "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 360,  in __call_chain
>    result = func(*args)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 506, in http_error_default
>    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(),  code,  msg,  hdrs,  fp)
> HTTPError:  HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
>
> Actually urlopen is working for google labs sets page but not for the
> google.com  and even I have same problem with wikipedia . Please let me know
> .. If any one of have any idea about this .
>
> Thank You,
> Spandana.
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