For the past 4 months or so - I have successfully been using the “make a request” http module in my scenarios with several different websites - none of which require user login. All of a sudden, today I’m getting 403 errors (“Error: 403 Forbidden”) for all of these sites. I’ve changed nothing on my end. Any ideas?
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You are probably being blocked by them because you did not use a proxy for scraping their website and use of a sleep module between HTTP requests.
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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
Yes, that’s what i suspect. i’ll try to see if there is a proxy module in Make…
There is no built-in proxy module, you’ll have to use a service that does the proxying for you like ScrapeNinja or Dumpling AI.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
thanks again for this - for now, i’m giving up …