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Data download fails w/ 403 Forbidden #49

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Langbridge opened this issue Feb 4, 2025 · 1 comment

Langbridge commented Feb 4, 2025

When trying to run the basic quick start code in a new environment, the code fails with the following error:

Downloading data for 2018 1-Year person survey for CA...

data/2018/1-Year/csv_pca.zip may be corrupted. Please try deleting it and rerunning this command.

Exception:  File is not a zip file

On inspection, the .zip file contains a 403 forbidden message from the ACS endpoint (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums/2018/1-Year)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access this resource.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

It looks like Census.gov have restricted access to the data?

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samgalen commented Feb 4, 2025

I encountered this problem as well. I have created a branch that uses the webarchive backup of the website to try and address this problem.

samgalen mentioned this issue

added simple flag to use archive.org mirror of census site #50

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