requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://context.reverso.net/bst-query-service

[sama-pall]

Hello,

I was using you api to add examples sentences (client.get_translation_samples) from reverso to anki cards.
Everything worked fine (thanks for useful tool by the way), but lately following error has started to appear.

File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reverso_context_api/client.py", line 57, in get_translation_samples
    for page in self._translations_pager(text, target_text, source_lang, target_lang):
  File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reverso_context_api/client.py", line 105, in _translations_pager
    r = self._request_translations(text, source_lang, target_lang, target_text, page_num=page_num)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reverso_context_api/client.py", line 143, in _request_translations
    r = self._session.json_request("POST", BASE_URL + "bst-query-service", data, headers=headers)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reverso_context_api/session.py", line 36, in json_request
    r = self.request(method, url, json=data, **kwargs)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reverso_context_api/session.py", line 32, in request
    r.raise_for_status()
  File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://context.reverso.net/bst-query-service

I'm not so good in python. Can you give me advice how to solve this issue?

[jack7277]

got the same error

[Artem745]

did you solve it?

[flagist0]

Hey guys, sorry for the (giant) delay. Looks like Reverso have switched to a new API version and now it is covered with Cloudflare. It is possible to overcome cloudflare protection, but it is very complicated (you'll need a real browser, controlled from the code, simulating human-like activity, and many other things, and even after adding all this it can break at any moment), and I don't think it's worth it.
I was using this package for the same reason -- to semi-automatically generate Anki cards. But right now there exist MUCH more powerful tools like ChatGPT, which can generate you phrases in any language in any context and at any knowledge level. It can even generate you whole files with Anki cards in plain-text format, that you can manually edit (if you want) and then bulk-import them into Anki. There is a very popular and clear API if you want to do it programmatically, it is so cheap that it's almost free. So i really recommend looking into it. Also i prefer to pay that (literally) cents to OpenAI and to use it legally instead of fighting with Reverso and Cloudflare, because Reverso doesn't provide a legal way of using its API for money (and also because ChatGPT is so much more powerful than Reverso)

[jack7277]

did you solve it?

I rewrote my bot using selenium, slower but works, in my projects "bot-translator-memorizer"