urllib2 Error 403: Forbidden

Question

I have posted to this site and received really helpful guidance, i return with another question.

Where have i gone wrong here, I was prettty sure this is what is require

Answer 1

If you have to do GET requests I reccomend you the Requests python package. You can read its advantages in this post.

However, if you're getting a 403 message maybe you're trying to access some restricted data (Wikipedia link).