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Error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden Requesting returnOpenLoanOffers

See original GitHub issue

After changing notify_summary_minutes to a number to fix #241, I ran into this error message

pi@raspberrypi:~/Programs/poloniexlendingbot $ python lendingbot.py
Welcome to Poloniex Lending Bot
2017-02-25 07:53:11 Error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden Requesting returnOpenLoanOffers
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lendingbot.py", line 71, in <module>
    Lending.cancel_all()
  File "/home/pi/Programs/poloniexlendingbot/modules/Lending.py", line 137, in cancel_all
    loan_offers = api.return_open_loan_offers()
  File "/home/pi/Programs/poloniexlendingbot/modules/Poloniex.py", line 153, in return_open_loan_offers
    loan_offers = self.api_query('returnOpenLoanOffers')
  File "/home/pi/Programs/poloniexlendingbot/modules/Poloniex.py", line 104, in api_query
    ret = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request('https://poloniex.com/tradingApi', post_data, headers))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Unhandled error, please open a Github issue so we can fix it!