Logs are reporting “HTTP request returned status code 403:” When importing with the CLI.

[guillaumesoucy94]

Hello,

I’m not able to import the half of the links from an .html file generated by Mozilla Firefox, the logs are reporting a lot of “HTTP request returned status code 403:”

This is an example:

“https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/electricity-calculator.html: https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/electricity-calculator.html is not reachable. HTTP request returned status code 403:”

When visiting the site by entering the link in Mozilla Firefox, I’m able to visit the website without any issues.

How to bypass this HTTP 403 error? Using tag –skip-meta-generation in my syntax doesn’t change anything.

About the environment, I’m using the latest LinkAce version running on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. Everything is up-to-date on the machine.

Thank-you,

Guillaume

[Kovah]

Hi there.
There is probably not much you can do about that. LinkAce does not use a regular browser to access the websites to generate titles and descriptions, therefore some website block all "non-human" visits. That's why you see a 403 in LinkAce but access the site in your browser without issues.
You can try to add regular User Agents to your configuration, see this documentation. But it's probably more about your server IP address, some sites block all visits from hosting providers.