statusCode 403 from https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/downloads/maps/spa/europe

Hi!

I made a flow to check if there is a new version of maps from:

At the beginning, flow work as expected. I was able to get the payload from the page and check the new version. But one day, it "stopped working" and by that I mean, it always return a statusCode: 403.

Here is the code of my flow:

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I don't know exactly what am I missing to make this flow work again. Can someone provide a bit of help on what is going on? Any help is really appreciated.

Regards,
acaminiti

Have you tried entering the url in a browser directly to see what happens?

An HTTP 403 response code means that a client is forbidden from accessing a valid URL . The server understands the request, but it can't fulfill the request because of client-side issues. The caller isn't authorized to access an API that's using an API Gateway Lambda authorizer.

They have probably changed something. You could try asking them for help.

@zenofmud don't think that Volvo would answer to a random guy that just wants to scrap information from their site because he is lazy. I did tried the link on my web-browser and yes I can see the page.

My guess is that I'm probably missing web-browser agent info and some other information that is exchange between the web-browser and the server. I did tried to use Firefox and Chrome web developers tools to gather that info, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for and how to set it in the node in order to generate a legit request.

Regards.

There's another page (VOLVO USA) which lists the version. Not sure if it's always the same compared to EU Europe though.

Don't judge my code please :nerd_face: but the HTML of this site is ugly, so I did an ugly string search too.

[{"id":"2b380e8543f43e3d","type":"tab","label":"Flow 3","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"3d3256309491a55b","type":"http request","z":"2b380e8543f43e3d","name":"","method":"GET","ret":"txt","paytoqs":"ignore","url":"https://volvo.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9378/~/download-the-latest-maps","tls":"","persist":false,"proxy":"","insecureHTTPParser":false,"authType":"","senderr":false,"headers":[],"x":330,"y":80,"wires":[["0e2d32d0acf15b25"]]},{"id":"d8f9610e663cd64c","type":"inject","z":"2b380e8543f43e3d","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":140,"y":80,"wires":[["3d3256309491a55b"]]},{"id":"85dc05ae0c0c01bd","type":"debug","z":"2b380e8543f43e3d","name":"debug 103","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":750,"y":80,"wires":[]},{"id":"0e2d32d0acf15b25","type":"function","z":"2b380e8543f43e3d","name":"get map version","func":"let index = msg.payload.indexOf(\"version is\");\nlet tmp_string = \"\";\nif(index > -1 ){\n    \n    tmp_string = msg.payload.substring(index, index + 60)\n    index = tmp_string.indexOf(\">\");\n    tmp_string = tmp_string.substring(index+1);\n    index = tmp_string.indexOf(\"&\");\n    tmp_string = tmp_string.substring(0,index);\n    \n}\nmsg.payload = tmp_string;\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","libs":[],"x":540,"y":80,"wires":[["85dc05ae0c0c01bd"]]}]

One day we'll get a VOLVO too, I hope.

Thanks @rko. The code indeed works. This other website looks a bit shady as it is not volvo.com
Let me check it, and thanks. Volvo is leased. :stuck_out_tongue:

Dear @rko indeed code worked. But now it just happen what i suspected it would happen by not using the official website. Versions between websites are out of sync. Seem that I might need to find a more reliable way to scrape Volvo's website.

Have you tried including the Cookies in the request headers that may be needed for the Authentication ?

Example Flow

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ps. the cookie from what i see in my Firefox dev tools expire in a year so you may need to devise a way to dynamically update them

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Thanks @UnborN this is exactly what I was looking for. Indeed the cookie and some others were the missing pieces. I did tried only adding Accept, Accept-Language, Encoding and Host. But as there are not so many examples on how to properly populate the headers in the http-request is was kind of difficult for me to figure it out. With the example you provided, I even managed to attach all the header elements into the same http-request node. and it is working like a charm!

Full flow here:

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(X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0"}],"x":470,"y":900,"wires":[["274dbbb7a7164ef4"]]},{"id":"8cc24db782522aeb","type":"debug","z":"c57baf29f28a2a71","name":"debug 104","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":910,"y":760,"wires":[]},{"id":"5585492ec91c9268","type":"inject","z":"c57baf29f28a2a71","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":360,"y":720,"wires":[["aab794143527c23c"]]},{"id":"83c96c84fa59db55","type":"junction","z":"c57baf29f28a2a71","x":140,"y":1040,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"19492f0e1e2780bb","type":"junction","z":"c57baf29f28a2a71","x":80,"y":1020,"wires":[["45552477e59279f2","063a7d68e2cc85d8","1df25504dbb36751"]]}]

Really appreciate your help and support.

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