I am trying to make a geocode request against the local.yahooapis.com geocode interface. This was working yesterday, with the same AppID, and a hardcoded address. Now I have broken up the query string and programmatically filled it from a database. the api returns a 403 – Forbidden error. I’m not sure if I have hit some throttling restrictions, or messed up my request in refactoring.
Request, with “MY_APP_ID” subbed out:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=MY_APP_ID&street=6727+N+5TH+ST&city=PHILADELPHIA&state=PA&output=php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
And the wireshark of the entire back and forth:
GET /MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=MY_APP_ID&street=BOX+269&city=TOUGHKENAMON&state=PA&output=php HTTP/1.0
Host: local.yahooapis.com
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:46:42 GMT
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Connection: close
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<body><div id="doc">
<div id="ygma"><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*http://www.yahoo.com"><img
src=http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yahoo.gif
width=147 height=31 border=0 alt="Yahoo!"></a><div><a
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a>
- <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*http://help.yahoo.com">Help</a></div></div>
<div id="bd"><h1>Sorry, Forbidden.</h1>
You don't have permission to access this URL on this server.<P>
<P>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
<p>Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If
you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the
<strong><a
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo! home
page</a></strong> or look through a list of <strong><a
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/">Yahoo!'s
online services</a></strong>. Also, you may find what you're looking for
if you try searching below.</p>
<form name="s1" action="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/403/*-http://search.yahoo.com/search"><fieldset>
<legend><label for
Can you identify what I am doing wrong, or tell me where I can check my AppID for any new restrictions?
Update:
I tried with a brand new appid. I used a 5 second sleep in the script, and only made 3 requests. The very first request failed. No idea what is causing this problem now.
Warning: file_get_contents(http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=orQG_ZLV34EmNvmFaIKpOd5RSu1aBsDEfoxNeJBFhr5VUM5dItKbyXLjoMYi0Q–&street=6727+N+5TH+ST&city=PHILADELPHIA&state=PA&output=php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in C:\wamp\www\Smartphone\updategeo.php on line 23
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Warning: file_get_contents(http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=orQG_ZLV34EmNvmFaIKpOd5RSu1aBsDEfoxNeJBFhr5VUM5dItKbyXLjoMYi0Q–&street=7400+OXFORD+AVE&city=PHILADELPHIA&state=PA&output=php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in C:\wamp\www\Smartphone\updategeo.php on line 23
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Warning: file_get_contents(http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=orQG_ZLV34EmNvmFaIKpOd5RSu1aBsDEfoxNeJBFhr5VUM5dItKbyXLjoMYi0Q–&street=2+W+FOURTH+ST&city=BRIDGEPORT&state=PA&output=php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in C:\wamp\www\Smartphone\updategeo.php on line 23
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Edit again: my best guess is that since im working on a dev box, and the appId was generated for a different domain, its rejecting it. How can i determine if that is correct? This doesnt make 100% sense to me though, as this code did work at some point.
I’ve seen this too. Happened when I made a change to my app that increased the volume of
Yahoo! API calls, and is only happening for requests from my app’s server. I suspect you (and I) exceeded the daily volumes permitted and are blacklisted by IP address. I can still make calls from my dev box with the same api key.
I hope we just get whitelisted again after a day.
The Yahoo! dev support forum for this API is at: http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showforum=114