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Was taking a look at the API tutorial and kept getting 403 return when calling the giantbomb API.
Googling uncovered this forum post from a month ago - http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/api-developers-3017/api-call-throws-error-403-forbidden-1496714/?page=1#js-message-8232912

Looks like giantbomb API now requires a (arbitrary) user agent. Adding this line fixes the 403.

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merwok commented Mar 16, 2016

LGTM, thanks for the report and patch!

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skadiet commented Jul 30, 2017

I was going to add some similar code to ensure that people knew they had to use a user-agent for the giatbomb api. As of a couple days ago, @nickdavidhaynes 's changes hadn't been pulled into @econchick 's master branch. Are there any plans to do this? How does that work?

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merwok commented Jul 31, 2017

I tend to give feedback on PRs but leave the final review and approval to @econchick

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