Re: Opinions on a door idea

[email protected] (Jay Harris) writes:

> On 02 Jul 2024, Daniel said the following...
>
>  Da> If I attempt accessing it with lynx, I get this generic error:
>  Da> 
>  Da> "Due to aggressive automated scraping of FederalRegister.gov and
>  Da> eCFR.gov, programmatic access to these sites is limited to access to our
>  Da> extensive developer APIs."
>  Da> 
>  Da> I don't get this message on a normal javascript enabled browser. I
>  Da> surmise it views queries from non-javascript browsers as a curl-like
>  Da> command.
>
> I don't know if you can change the user agent in lynx, but try and see if it 
> works with curl.
>
> e.g:
> agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/127.0"
>
> curl -A "$agent" <url>
>
>
> I've had to do this in the past when pulling information for weather, they
> stopped allowing curl, but simply changing the user agent allowed it to work.

Okay thanks. Do you have an opinion on the door idea by chance?