How to Bypass 403 Forbidden Error When Web Scraping: Tutorial

The 403 Forbidden Error is an HTTP response status code that declines permission to the target website. When web scraping, it can mean that the website detected bot activity and blocked access to the server. Solving this issue might require three steps based on the detection level the target website implements.

Following this guide, you’ll learn about user agents, request headers, and proxy rotation. We’ll show you a method of adjusting and rotating user agents, as well as optimizing request headers for complexity and consistency. In addition, you’ll learn about our unblocking solution that guarantees you’ll never get the 403 error again.

📚 *VIDEO RESOURCES*
HTTP headers supported by popular browsers:
Learn to Rotate Proxies in Python:

🔧 *OUR SCRAPING SOLUTIONS*
Residential Proxies:
Shared Datacenter Proxies:
Dedicated Datacenter Proxies
SOCKS5 Proxies:

🤝 *LET'S CONNECT*

⏳ *TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 Bypassing the 403 Forbidden Error Tutorial
0:20 403 Forbidden Error Explained
0:52 What could solve this error?
1:15 What is a User Agent?
1:51 Adjusting and Rotating User Agents
4:54 Complexity of Request Headers
7:23 Consistency of Request Headers
7:55 Setting Up Request Headers
9:13 Using and Rotating Proxies
10:11 Easier Solution to the 403 Forbidden Error
11:15 Ending

🎥 *RELATED VIDEOS*
Step-by-Step Web Scraping Tutorial With Python:
How to Scrape Difficult Targets Without Getting Blocked:
How to Rotate Proxies With Python (Easy & Quick Tutorial):

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[umair]

I solved the 403 error for a website, after watching this video. First I used User Agents, it didn't solve, then I used request headers, it solved.

[odkdsjf]

You explained it very well and produced a very high-quality video... which is extremely rare on YouTube. Good job. Thank you

[MrRaveHaven]

Would be really cool if there was a Python library which created a full set of realistic headers for use with Requests/scraping.

[dantelangone]

It is a great video, thank you! One thing I did not understand is how do I select the headers to include, the resource you cite in description is really tough to understand.

[Andrei-dsqv]

Interesting and educational video, but what you did there was not reading the answer from the server to which you have make a request, you just printed out your headers from the request itself. It is the same thing, but for the sake of the truth you should have read what came back in the data_request.text(), because that is where the server will put it's answer and will tell you what it sees.

[ronnielipman]

I alwatch s tube…..today on all my devices I’m getting the 403 error on all my android boxes…..om you tube without ads etc etc….are u able to help

[scoutgaming]

I'm trying to make discord bot that just post e621 posts one by one and I'm just wondering why that website would be concerned with bots just looking aorund lol

[utkucevik]

and sometimes some websites blocking the library like beatifulsoup. so using different library works sometimes too.