On Oct 19, 9:49 am, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:13 AM, silk.odyssey wrote: > > > I am getting the following error trying to download an html page using > > urllib2. > > > urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 204: NoContent > > > The url is of this type: > > >http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000KJX3A0%3FSubscriptionId%3D... > > > I can open it in my browser without problems.Any ideas on a solution? > > Are you changing the user-agent? Some sites sniff user agents and > return different results to browsers than to suspected bots.
I tried it. >>> import urllib2 >>> url = >>> 'http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000KJX3A0%3FSubscriptionId%3D183VXJS74KNQ89D0NRR2%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D386001%26creativeASIN%3DB000KJX3A0' >>> op = urllib2.urlopen(url) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 380, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 491, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 418, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 499, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 204: NoContent >>> headers = {} >>> headers['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; >>> rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3' >>> ro = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers) >>> op = urllib2.urlopen(ro) >>> page = op.read() >>> page (lots of HTML) So the answer is as Philip suggests - amazon.com doesn't like 'Python- urllib/2.5' as a User-Agent. You have to give it something that looks like a browser. -- (for email use this address please - you can figure it out) Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net Any clod can have the facts; San Francisco Bay Area, California having opinions is an art. - C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list