Http - Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden error with Python web scraping

Question

I am trying to web scrape a http website and I am getting below error when I am trying to read the website.

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='proxyvipecc.nb.xxxx.com', port=83): Max retries exceeded with url: http://campanulaceae.myspecies.info/ (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden',)))

Below is the code I have written with similar website. I tried using urllib and user-agent and still the same issue.

url = "http://campanulaceae.myspecies.info/"

response = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'})
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

Can anyone help me with the issue. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

you should try to add proxy while requesting url.

proxyDict = { 
          'http'  : "add http proxy", 
          'https' : "add https proxy"
        }

requests.get(url, proxies=proxyDict)

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