Starting 2 hours ago my eventstreams started to fail with http status 403 and the message
Please set a user-agent and respect our robot policy https://w.wiki/4wJS. See also T400119.
I have submitted a change to gerrit that sets a valid user-agent as default.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| add user-agent header to eventstream requests | pywikibot/core | master | +18 -6 |
Change #1181717 had a related patch set uploaded (by DerIch27; author: DerIch27):
[pywikibot/core@master] add user-agent header to eventstream requests
I just realized that the header argument will be passed through to the stream so users can work around like this
stream = eventstreams.EventStreams(streams='recentchange', headers={'User-Agent': ...})
meaning this tasks priority is not as high as I thought but I still believe we should follow our own policies by default or at least change the documentation in a way that our example won't get blocked when used outside of toolforge
Change #1181717 merged by JJMC89:
[pywikibot/core@master] add user-agent header to eventstream requests