Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:

> Baseball Bugs reports that the Make Your Own feature in WikiLove doesn't
> work for him, and he gets an API error consistently.

> I asked him to go to the following URL to make sure that it returns a
> result for him:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File%3ATrophy.png&prop=imageinfo

> Instead of getting a result from the API, he gets a 403 error: "The
> website declined to show this webpage / HTTP 403"

> What could possibly be the reason for this? Is there an IP blacklist for
> the API or something?

Missing User-Agent header?

Tim


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