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Request forbidden by administrative rules.
Hi, I add this piece of code to get the error information:
begin
puts "starting main thread....."
stream_all!(bot, subreddit_list)
rescue Exception => e
puts "big error we need to fix: #{e}"
end
After several hours without any activity, I got "Request forbidden by administrative rules.". How can I fix this?
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (execution expired), retrying...
Redd got a Redd::ServerError error (<!doctype html>
<html>
<title>Ow! -- reddit.com</title>
<style>
body{text-align:c...), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (execution expired), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
Redd got a HTTP::TimeoutError error (Read timed out after 5 seconds), retrying...
big error we need to fix: <html><body><h1>403 Forbidden</h1>
Request forbidden by administrative rules.
Hi! Sorry for the late reply, I've been a bit busy recently.
And unfortunately I don't think I can help you either. 403s are usually thrown when the access has expired or the the bot is requesting something outside its scope, but those should raise InvalidAccess and InsufficientScope. And if you're doing something that reddit doesn't allow you, the body should say {"message": "Forbidden", "error": 403}. So Request forbidden by administrative rules is something I've never seen when working with reddit.
Are you possibly behind a corporate or educational firewall that prevents you from visiting certain subreddits or blocks certain keywords?
I was running the bot in my house, so I don't think that's because the firewall. It takes long to repeat this bug. I'll keep my eyes on it.
Hmm...that's interesting, now I'm curious too. To avoid cluttering logs, Redd only prints out the first few characters of the error message, but you can get the whole thing by calling error.response.raw_body on the exception like so:
begin
...
rescue Redd::Forbidden => e
if e.response.raw_body.include?("administrative rules")
puts e.response.headers.inspect
puts e.response.raw_body
raise e
end
end
Maybe that'll clear up some of the mystery. Keep me posted if you run into this error again!