Beautiful Soup - urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Question

I am trying to download a GIF file with urrlib, but it is throwing this error:

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

This does not happen when I download from other blog sites. This is my code:

import requests
import urllib.request

url_1 = 'https://goodlogo.com/images/logos/small/nike_classic_logo_2355.gif'

source_code = requests.get(url_1,headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})    

path = 'C:/Users/roysu/Desktop/src_code/Python_projects/python/web_scrap/myPath/'

full_name = path + ".gif"    
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url_1,full_name)

Answer 1

Don't use urllib.request.urlretrieve. Instead, use the requests library like this:

import requests

url = 'https://goodlogo.com/images/logos/small/nike_classic_logo_2355.gif'

path = "D:\\Test.gif"

response = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

file = open(path, "wb")

file.write(response.content)

file.close()

Output:

Hope that this helps!