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Re: get google scholar using python

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From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: get google scholar using python
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On 2012-10-01, Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> wrote:
>> urllib2.urlopen('http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=albert
>>...
>> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
>> 
>> Will you kindly explain me the way to get rid of this?
>
> Looks like Google blocks non-browser user agents from retrieving this
> query. You *could* work around it by setting the User-Agent header to
> something fake that looks browser-ish, but you're almost certainly
> breaking Google's TOS if you do so.

I don't know about that particular Google service, but Google often
provides an API that's intended for use by non-browser programs. 
Those interfaces are usually both easier to use for the programmer and
impose less load on the servers.

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get google scholar using python রুদ্র ব্যাণার্জী  <bnrj.rudra@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 17:44 +0100
  RE: get google scholar using python Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> - 2012-10-01 16:51 +0000
    Re: get google scholar using python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-01 17:19 +0000
    Re: get google scholar using python রুদ্র ব্যাণার্জী  <bnrj.rudra@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 18:28 +0100
      Re: get google scholar using python Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 14:09 -0400

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