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Originally Posted by DNSB
Just for the heck of it, I then repeated the metadata fetch. After 5 fetches, Amazon dropped out and another 3 fetches knocked Kobo out. A 15 minute break while I enjoyed a coffee and scrumpet and both worked for two more tries.
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Originally Posted by deb27
I've been having the same problem for months. All of the problems have been with books I bought on Amazon. Here's an example:
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File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
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The error message I got in the log files while I was blocked was the same 403: Forbidden. Basically enough connects and you are considered a denial of service attack so you get sent to the corner for a while. The easiest way I found to do this was to attempt getting metadata for multiple books at once.