I am having a problem when I am trying to access an API there is no documentation and it is not supported officially.
The thing is if I put the API link into my various browsers it works fine but when I try to access it through my python script I get a 403 error. It sends back a 200 ok response when I put in chrome browser.
I am assuming it is not Authentication or Cookies/Session Data because it works through various different browsers and I have experimented deleting cookies and signing out of the website etc. all seems to be working.
I am also assuming its not IP Blocking or Rate Limiting because its a singular request and from the same IP it seems to work fine.
I may be assuming wrongly though.
The User-Agent header must be the problem I tried changing the user agent and it didn't work. I tried changing various header data so its the same as my chrome browser but nothing seems to work. I have scoured the internet and stack overflow all day and can't find a solution
My python script:
import requests, jsondata = "data"headers = {'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7','Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br','Accept-Language': 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8','Connection': 'keep-alive','Cache-Control': 'no-cache','Cookie': '__cflb=02DiuFQAkRrzD1P1mdkJhfdTc9AmTWwYjJGtpDcTftSd2; X-Mapping-Server=s7; cf_clearance=I2RZ8gC2GNXzVT0nf_bcKUQEtU5oGRrFq6Eq1OjR_Xs-1696873939-0-1-5622ec48.635f2445.c3629c20-0.2.1696873939','User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'}# API endpointendpoint = f"http://link-to-api/{data}/# Send an HTTP GET request to the API endpointresponse = requests.get(api_endpoint_url, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: data = response.json() print(f"Response code: {response.status_code}") print(data)else: print(f"{response.status_code} Error: {response.reason}")Expected Output: PRINTS data from the API
Actual Output: 403 Error: Forbidden
So does anyone know why I am getting a 403 error and how to get around it so I can access this API from my python script. If there is a problem because I need to authenticate it or anything do share.
EDIT: Perhaps it is something to do with HTTP and HTTPS?
EDIT 2: Changed to make more generic also I found out after reverse engineering the API and some research my target api uses tls ja3 fingerprinting which I got around by using curl_cffi python module to spoof my ja3 fingerprint to a chrome browser.