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howdoi version 2.0.14 gives this error no matter what search string I type

for example : howdoi format date bash

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Created 2 years ago
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kingpitkacommented, Jun 1, 2021

Hey, could the Europeans in this thread try out my fork over at #393? I attached a small consent cookie to the request, which seems to have bypassed the Google GDPR Page for me 😃

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hieuhccommented, Apr 22, 2021

Duckduckgo works for the first request, then consecutive requests are blocked by the search engine with 403 Client Error: Forbidden

INFO: Fetching answers for query: format date in python
INFO: Searching duckduckgo with URL: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=site:stackoverflow.com%20format%20date%20in%20python&t=hj&ia=web
INFO: http erro: HTTPError('403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site:stackoverflow.com%20format%20date%20in%20python&t=hj&ia=web')
INFO: result is None
ERROR: Unable to find an answer because the search engine temporarily blocked the request. Please wait a few minutes or select a different search engine.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/howdoi/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 607, in howdoi
    res = _get_answers(args)
  File "/howdoi/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 415, in _get_answers
    question_links = _get_links_with_cache(args['query'])
  File "/howdoi/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 394, in _get_links_with_cache
    links = _get_links(query)
  File "/howdoi/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 281, in _get_links
    raise BlockError('Temporary block by search engine')
howdoi.howdoi.BlockError: Temporary block by search engine