Hi!

On 6/18/19 2:29 PM, Tim Finin wrote:
> I've been using wdtaxonomy
> <https://wdtaxonomy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> happily for many months
> on my macbook. Starting yesterday, every call I make (e.g., "wdtaxonomy
> -c Q5") produces an immediate "SPARQL request failed" message.

Could you provide more details, which query is sent and what is the full
response (including HTTP code)?

>
> Might these requests be blocked now because of the new WDQS policies?

One thing I may think of it that this tool does not send the proper
User-Agent header. According to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy, all clients should
identify with valid user agent. We've started enforcing it recently, so
maybe this tool has this issue. If not, please provide the data above.

--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

_______________________________________________
Wikidata mailing list
Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata