requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error:

[arsanious]

This used to work, but started failing all of a sudden.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "simple.py", line 29, in <module>
    tts.save(CLIP_NAME)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 94, in save
    self.write_to_fp(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtts/tts.py", line 118, in write_to_fp
    r.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 840, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

[nihal111]

Found the same issue. When I ran this today.

[jakejdavis]

Me too

[ignalex]

same

[emanuelioanmuraru]

Same, what did Google change now

[mbusy]

Same here

[rogsme]

I also have this problem. No fixes to this yet?

[lewisling]

Yes, I have the same problem. Tests are working fine 12 hours ago.

[rhsu0268]

Same problem here. I love this module very much. Hopefully we will get a resolution soon.

[jakejdavis]

if anyone needs anything urgent here is an online tts service that uses google translate that i think still works, the url is http://soundoftext.com, to get a sound use this http://soundoftext.com/static/sounds/en/hello_my_name_is.mp3

[pndurette]

Seems Google changed something.. Sigh. Will have to look at it. Hopefully
we can recover from this one.

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Yes, I have the same problem. Tests are working fine 12 hours ago.

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[arsanious]

so this works
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=hello&tl=En-gb

this (from the gTTS api) doesn't
https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

[ignalex]

thanks arsanious for the links.
if replacing

client=t

in the gTTS link with

client=tw-ob

it works (for me).
btw strange thing = the voice is slightly different .

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so this works

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=hello&tl=En-gb

this (from the gTTS api) doesn't

https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

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[ignalex]

this fixed it:
in tts.py
line 105
change to
'client' : 'tw-ob',

and sexy google voice is back.
although don't know if the solution would work for everybody and / or
permanent.
looks google guys monitor IPs from which requests been sent (maybe
considering client?) and block (for a client?)

On 13 May 2016 at 06:17, Alexander Ignatov ignalex@gmail.com wrote:

thanks arsanious for the links.
if replacing

client=t

in the gTTS link with

client=tw-ob

it works (for me).
btw strange thing = the voice is slightly different .

On 13 May 2016 at 02:48, arsanious notifications@github.com wrote:

so this works

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=hello&tl=En-gb

this (from the gTTS api) doesn't

https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

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[pndurette]

I had to do that in the past, I remember. Thanks so much for finding this!
Will made and test the change shortly.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Alex notifications@github.com wrote:

this fixed it:
in gtts.py
line 105
change to
'client' : 'tw-ob',

and sexy google voice is back.
although don't know if the solution would work for everybody and / or
permanent.
looks google guys monitor IPs from which requests been sent (maybe
considering client?) and block (for a client?)

On 13 May 2016 at 06:17, Alexander Ignatov ignalex@gmail.com wrote:

thanks arsanious for the links.
if replacing

client=t

in the gTTS link with

client=tw-ob

it works (for me).
btw strange thing = the voice is slightly different .

On 13 May 2016 at 02:48, arsanious notifications@github.com wrote:

so this works

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=hello&tl=En-gb

this (from the gTTS api) doesn't

https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello&tl=en&client=t&textlen=5&idx=0&total=1&ie=UTF-8&tk=295461.176510

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[nihal111]

@pndurette Why did you revert to client=t from client=tw-ob ? Does google keep this link changing?

[pndurette]

As I remember it that argument had to be equal to something else before.

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@pndurette Why did you revert to client=t from `client=tw-ob'? Does google keep this link changing?

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[BrunoKruz]

I made the change in the client parameter and now are working again.

[pndurette]

Thanks @arsanious, @ignalex and everyone for reporting and especially finding the solution so quickly. Releasing a new version with the fix. Will report once it's out.

[pndurette]

gtts 1.1.5 was released to PyPi! Changelog 😄