HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[Elhison]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/icebunny08/Documents/a_test.py", line 3, in <module>
    cat.getCat(directory="~/Downloads", filename="cat", format='png')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cat/__init__.py", line 41, in getCat
    download(downloadlink, savefile)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 247, in urlretrieve
    with contextlib.closing(urlopen(url, data)) as fp:
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[wallmalker1]

The only file in this is init.py. You can replace the existing init.py with the attached init.txt (just change the extension) for this to work init.txt

The API changed so you can no longer specify filetype. You can get more images, specify breeds, etc. if you get the API key and make a few more code changes https://developers.thecatapi.com/view-account/ylX4blBYT9FaoVd6OhvR?report=bOoHBz-8t

[PVahr]

Can be fixed by passing a (fake) header to requests.get Following this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38489386/how-to-fix-403-forbidden-errors-when-calling-apis-using-python-requests I added headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36'} and then changed the function to call r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)