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request to BoardGameGeek suddenly returns 403 error

Hi, I develop little app for logging gameplay session with my friends and suddenly I am getting this error:

requests.exceptions.ProxyError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='boardgamegeek.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /xmlapi2/thing?id=143884&stats=1 (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden')))

Few days ago everzthing worked just fine and on local it is still working. Is it possible that I had to many requests that BGG blocked me or PythonAnywhere? I am kind of lost now. Thank you for any help.

BoardGameApp

BoardGameApp | 4 posts | Jan. 25, 2022, 8:05 a.m. | permalink

"www.boardgamegeek.com" is whitelisted. "boardgamegeek.com" is not.

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 25, 2022, 9:54 a.m. | permalink

Yeah, I use "https://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi2/" as prefix for my requests.

Before I meant that few days back it was working even on pythonanywhere.

BoardGameApp | 4 posts | Jan. 25, 2022, 10:27 a.m. | permalink

Hi, I got response from boardgamegeek and they did change it. ww.boardgamegeek.com redirects to boardgamegeek.com which is not in whitelist. Could you please add it there? Thank you

BoardGameApp | 4 posts | Jan. 25, 2022, 2:43 p.m. | permalink

Sure -- that's been added and will be active within about five minutes.

Staff giles | 11800 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 25, 2022, 2:53 p.m. | permalink

Awesome, it works again. Thank you so much.

BoardGameApp | 4 posts | Jan. 25, 2022, 3:08 p.m. | permalink

Great -- thanks for confirming!

Staff giles | 11800 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 25, 2022, 3:09 p.m. | permalink