prueker
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3 years ago It appears that the aviationweather.gov service has stopped accepting the python user agent overnight. Thanks for letting me know. I've fixed the metar.py script to address the issue.
I am getting the following error today after starting up my raspberry pi
https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam?dataSource=metars&requestType=retrieve&format=xml&hoursBeforeNow=5&mostRecentForEachStation=true&stationString=KSAC,KMHR,KMCC,KSMF,KDWA,KEDU,KVCB,KSUU,KLHM,KAUN,KBAB,KPVF,KMYV,KOVE,KCIC,KRBL,KRDD,KBLU,KGOO,KTRK,KRNO,KTVL,KJAQ,KO22,KSCK,KMOD,KTCY,KC83,KLVK,KHWD,KOAK,KSFO,KSQL,KPAO,KSJC,KRHV,KWVI,KCVH,KSNS,KMRY,KHAF,KAPC,KSTS,KO69,KCCR,KMCE,KMER,KFAT,KMAE,KHJO Traceback (most recent call last): File "metar.py", line 60, in
content = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
return self._call_chain(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
result = func(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
No changes since it was working fine just yesterday.
When i got to the URL from a separate browser, it returns the correct information.