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   Message 15,797 of 16,010   
   Daniel to Jay Harris   
   Re: Opinions on a door idea   
   04 Jul 24 13:36:42   
   
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   nospam.Jay.Harris@f664.n229.z1.fidonet.org (Jay Harris) writes:   
      
   > On 02 Jul 2024, Daniel said the following...   
   >   
   >  Da> If I attempt accessing it with lynx, I get this generic error:   
   >  Da>   
   >  Da> "Due to aggressive automated scraping of FederalRegister.gov and   
   >  Da> eCFR.gov, programmatic access to these sites is limited to access to our   
   >  Da> extensive developer APIs."   
   >  Da>   
   >  Da> I don't get this message on a normal javascript enabled browser. I   
   >  Da> surmise it views queries from non-javascript browsers as a curl-like   
   >  Da> command.   
   >   
   > I don't know if you can change the user agent in lynx, but try and see if it   
   > works with curl.   
   >   
   > e.g:   
   > agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101   
   > Firefox/127.0"   
   >   
   > curl -A "$agent"    
   >   
   >   
   > I've had to do this in the past when pulling information for weather, they   
   > stopped allowing curl, but simply changing the user agent allowed it to work.   
      
   Okay thanks. Do you have an opinion on the door idea by chance?   
      
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