Web Request Response From Nike.com Forbidden

Question

All I'm trying to do is create a program that gets a web response from Nike's upcoming shoe's page, however I keep running into an error saying this is forbidden. No other threads on this topic have been of use to me, is there anything I can do for this or am I just screwed? This is the code:

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://www.nike.com/launch/?s=upcoming");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

and this is the error:

System.Net.WebException: 'The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.'

Answer 1

Seems like a header issue, try this:

    WebClient client = new WebClient();
    client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
    client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application / zip, application / octet - stream");
    client.Headers.Add("Referer", "http://whatevs");
    client.Headers.Add("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8");
    String someStuff = client.DownloadString("https://www.hassanhabib.com");
    Console.WriteLine(someStuff);
    Console.Read();

Removed the Accept-Encoding line, should be fine now.