get wikipedia source failed (urrlib2)

Lawrence Oluyede raims at dot.com
Tue Aug 7 05:53:18 EDT 2007


<shahargs at gmail.com> wrote:
> This source works fine for other site. the problem is in wikipedia. is
> someone now any solution for this problem?

Wikipedia, AFAIK, bans requests without a User Agent.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#headers

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