urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:05:47 -0800, iMath wrote:

>>>> import urllib.request
>>>> response =
>>>> urllib.request.urlopen('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Internet_media_type')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>     response =
>     urllib.request.urlopen('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Internet_media_type')
[...]
> urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
> 
> 
> why this url generate error ？




Because you are in violation of Wikipedia's terms and services. Please do 
not try to screen-scrape Wikipedia. Instead, use their API for accessing 
pages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot




-- 
Steven