Got 403 forbidden when I do anything

Hi,
I have a script to query and download Danbooru posts every hour. It has been working find up until today when it returns 403 forbidden instead. I have also tried to authenticate myself with "https://danbooru.donmai.us/profile.json?login=nsfwjjjjj&api_key=<my_api_key>" and this also got a 403 forbidden. What is happening here?

Probably a Cloudflare block. Make sure you're sending a valid User-Agent header.

Talulah said:

Probably a Cloudflare block. Make sure you're sending a valid User-Agent header.

Thanks for the quick reply. I've never done that before, could you point me to some resource where I can educate myself?

Here's an MDN article on it. How you actually add it will depend based on the HTTP library in use.

If you are using Python with the python-requests library (since it's popular) it will look like this:

import requests

headers = { "User-Agent": "nsfwjjjjjBot/1.0.0" }

requests.get(some_url, headers=headers)

Talulah said:

Here's an MDN article on it. How you actually add it will depend based on the HTTP library in use.

If you are using Python with the python-requests library (since it's popular) it will look like this:

import requests

headers = { "User-Agent": "nsfwjjjjjBot/1.0.0" }

requests.get(some_url, headers=headers)

Thanks, added a custom User-Agent string and it works again now!