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I'm developing a web app using NodeJS.

Requesting an image using my browser, I get the appropriate response. Requesting the same image in my code (back-end server) I am getting this following response:

STATUS: 403 forbidden

Body:

<h1>Wordpress RSS Reader, Anonymous Bot or Scraper Blocked</h1>

<p>

Sorry we do not allow WordPress plugins to scrape our site. They tend to be used maliciously to steal our content. We do not allow scraping of any kind.

You can load our RSS feeds using any other reader but you may not download our content.

<a href='/feeds'>Click here more information on our feeds</a>

</p>

<p>

Or you're running a bot that does not provide a unique user agent.

Please provide a UNIQUE user agent that describes you. Do not use a default user agent like "PHP", "Java", "Ruby", "wget", "curl" etc.

You MUST provide a UNIQUE user agent. ...and for God's sake don't impersonate another bot like Google Bot that will for sure

get you permanently banned.

</p>

<p>

Or.... maybe you're running an LG Podcast player written by a 10 year old. Either way, Please stop doing that.

</p>

What am I doing wrong? As I understand it is not a problem with my API key, so what is it?

Thanks.

Hello,

We are writing a social free of charge web application for trading and exchanging video games.

We allow the users to upload their own images of their games, but we also want to upload images for users who don't want to mess around with taking pictures of their games.

How should we implement this API on our web app?

As I understand it, out requests should come from the server and not from the client, since the API key is secret.

Moreover, since the number of requests is limited, should we store some images on our server (something like a cache layer)?

And in general, I would like to hear your thoughts about the best practices on how to use this API in a web application.

Thanks.