403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

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guybrushthreepwood

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I wrote a selenium / python script that creates twitter accounts for me.

When it presses the submit button I get this error: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."

Waiting, chaning ip, clearing cookies et does not solve the problem.

Any idea how to ork around this?

thx ☺

 

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papercut

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403 error means forbidden, have you given it permission to execute? chmod +x file.py

 

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guybrushthreepwood

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the error comes from the twitter website...

 

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papercut

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guybrushthreepwood said:

the error comes from the twitter website...

Click to expand...

Okay - this were not stated in the OP.

 

jamie3000

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That is odd. If you're using selenium then you should be posting exactly what the server is expecting. You're not bypassing the client side validation in anyway are you? Also I remember having to set the user agent to chrome when using phantomjs, not sure if I had to do anything like that with selenium.

 

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Also are you using 100â„… different data each time? Eg different user name after a 403. Server might blacklist that username if it thinks its being automated

 

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seogootwit

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Did you find a solution for this. Same thing happens to me using the Twitter Intent URL with capserjs/slimerjs but everything else I do works fine.

 

whiteroot

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I had this problem from time to time with my own script.
What I found while debugging is I missed sending something when posting data
check that you post a valid user-agent, a referer, all the fields found in the form (especially the authenticity token), the cookie
you must convince Twitter you use a normal browser
its 403 response means you didn't