geopy: Insufficient Priveleges for Nominatim

When using Nominatim, we get an geopy.exc.GeocoderInsufficientPrivileges exception, even though Nominatim should not require account credentials:

>>> geolocator = Nominatim()
>>> geolocator.geocode("Washington, DC", timeout=10) 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geopy/geocoders/osm.py", line 191, in geocode
    self._call_geocoder(url, timeout=timeout), exactly_one
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geopy/geocoders/base.py", line 147, in _call_geocoder
    raise ERROR_CODE_MAP[code](message)
geopy.exc.GeocoderInsufficientPrivileges: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Can anyone else confirm?

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 22 (1 by maintainers)

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“GeocoderInsufficientPrivileges” error - try to use ‘Photon’ instead of ‘Nominatim’

from geopy.geocoders import Photon geolocator = Photon(user_agent=“app_name here”)

Developer-felix on Mar 28, 2021

I had a similar problem; I just left it for a while and it now works again. I think the problem was at the sever end.

tobiz on Jul 27, 2018