Nominatim HTTP Error 403: Forbidden for default User-Agent

Nominatim API seems to block the default User-Agent: Python-urllib/3.5 now: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden.

Looking at the code the default User-Agent should be geopy/1.11.0? I’ve tried to set own user-agent by: Nominatim(user_agent='MyApp/1.2.3') but the request has still the user agent User-Agent: Python-urllib/3.5 and it fails with HTTP 403. So, the user-agent param does not work properly.

Edit: duplicate to #185 and probably solved by #184. Leaving this opened, since the Nominatim has started to block these requests just recently. Just to prevent other folks to duplicate the issue like me.

[eulercosta]

@edwin34 python2

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
import urllib2

def get_geolocator():
    geolocator = Nominatim()

    requester = geolocator.urlopen

    def requester_hack(req, **kwargs):
        req = urllib2.Request(url=req, headers=geolocator.headers)
        return requester(req, **kwargs)

    geolocator.urlopen = requester_hack

    return geolocator

location = get_geolocator().reverse("52.509669, 13.376294")
address = location.address

python3

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
from urllib.request import Request

def get_geolocator():
    geolocator = Nominatim()

    requester = geolocator.urlopen

    def requester_hack(req, **kwargs):
        req = Request(url=req, headers=geolocator.headers)
        return requester(req, **kwargs)

    geolocator.urlopen = requester_hack

    return geolocator

location = get_geolocator().reverse("52.509669, 13.376294")
address = location.address

[xmedeko]

Note: temporary hack to overcome this issue:

    def nominatim_hack(geocoder: Nominatim):
        """HACK to geopy bugs #262 and #185"""
        requester = geocoder.urlopen

        def requester_hack(req, **kwargs):
            req = Request(url=req, headers=geocoder.headers)
            return requester(req, **kwargs)

        geocoder.urlopen = requester_hack

And use it:

locator = Nominatim()
locator = nominatim_hack(locator)
location = locator.reverse("52.509669, 13.376294")