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Alternatives for wget giving 'ERROR 403: Forbidden'

I'm trying to get text from multiple Pubmed papers using wget, but seems NCBI website don't allow this. Any alternatives?

Bernardos-MacBook-Pro:pangenome_papers_pubmed_result bernardo$ wget -i ./url.txt
--2016-05-04 10:49:34--  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560400/
Resolving www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 130.14.29.110, 2607:f220:41e:4290::110
Connecting to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|130.14.29.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2016-05-04 10:49:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2016-05-04 10:49:34--  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547177/
Reusing existing connection to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2016-05-04 10:49:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Solution

  • Set custom User Agent like this:

    wget --user-agent="Mozilla" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560400/