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OpenURI :: HTTPError: 403 Forbidden

I use the wikipedia-api plugin to get content pages from Wikipedia. From some days I get this error when I try to get the contents:

  page = Wikipedia.find_by_titles('Foo')
OpenURI::HTTPError: 403 Forbidden
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:277:in `open_http'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in `buffer_open'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in `open'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
    from /home/luca/Programming/nerto_5/vendor/plugins/wikipedia-api/lib/mediawiki.rb:139:in `get_xml'

What is it?

How can i do this?

thank

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2 answers

I decided to change

Hpricot.XML(open(url))

at

  Hpricot.XML(open(url, 'User-Agent' => 'ruby'))

In the mediawiki.rb file

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Yes it works.

Same for Nokogiri 403 Forbidden Issues

doc = Nokogiri :: HTML (open (site, 'User-Agent' => 'ruby'))

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