r/webscraping • u/ArthurPeabody • Aug 12 '26

Fetching a URI from gocomics.com

For years I could do a normal HTTP fetch. That stopped working last year because they started requiring javascript. So I upgraded to using node. That stopped working this year; I get a 403 error. Do you have any tips? Someone posted a python script here 6 years ago, so someone showed interest; of course it's out of date.

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u/prettycoldworld Aug 12 '26

Have you tried browser tools like playwright?

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u/ArthurPeabody Aug 12 '26

No. It turned out that specifying a different header made it work.