# \[WS\] Metal Archives
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [December 20, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923 "2007-12-20T14:52:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 8
### Author:  [@MONIKADAVRE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MONIKADAVRE)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/144 "2025-04-24T13:27:25Z")
Thanks for all your hard work, it's great!
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/145 "2025-04-24T13:44:01Z")
Happy to help, and thank you for you kind words 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jaeger1349](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jaeger1349)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/146 "2025-04-24T19:22:57Z")
@anton, my man, all works great! The latest changes finally left out the coding problems (a really frutrating bug). I'm amazed how much you improved/enhanced/fixed all the scrips in so short time, they're better than ever as I used for the first time. As @MONIKADAVRE said: _thanks for all your hard work_. Cheers!
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### Author:  [@slayerist](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slayerist)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/147 "2025-05-14T11:59:34Z")
It has been almost a month since i could not use metal archives.
The scripts return the same old "error connecting to" 403 forbidden error.
Does anyone have a fix/solution?
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/148 "2025-05-14T14:34:08Z")
Hi, good day.
I have done a quick test on my end, and (as cliche goes) site is working on my end - both through web browser, as well MP3Tag (using various scripts).
By any chance are you using a previous version (i.e., a pre-April 18, 2025) of the scripts?
If so, could you please check again using latest versions of scripts? (don't forget to do backup of your current scripts)
This as since that version script's code has a specific change that was added aimed to, _in some way_, mitigate to CloudFlare issues (long story short: setting a user agent). I am not quite sure _how much_ that actually helps, as the "403 error" is caused by Cloudflare's configuration on MA's site, but as far as I have read (and understand), using a user agent on scripts can help to have CF allowing connection to site.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@chthonic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chthonic)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/149 "2025-05-14T14:36:50Z")
@slayerist I used it fine (kind of) all day yesterday, I would see if you have the latest version of the script. @anton can you test if the band name "Tenue" is able to be searched using Band Info script, because this band and another I can't quite remember gave me this error "Sorry, no entries are matching your search criteria." All the other scripts work fine for this band.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/150 "2025-05-14T15:49:59Z")
Hey there!
Sure thing, I’ll take a look at that band later today (guess who arrived late to workplace today? lol).
If you can also provide the other band’s name that would be awesome, just to check if there no additional issues to look into 🙂 (lesson learned after dealing with the Unicode issues).
Regards.
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### Author:  [@slayerist](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slayerist)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/151 "2025-05-14T16:02:03Z")
Unfortunately it has nothing to do with the scripts. I both tested the latest and previous versions.
Surely there is something wrong with metal archives end.
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### Author:  [@chthonic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chthonic)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/152 "2025-05-14T16:59:45Z")
Sure, I'm also at work and will check after I get back.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/153 "2025-05-14T21:03:55Z")
A quick update:
I think that I've found what the issue is (a weird one let me tell you), and have made some changes to script (not released yet). Nonetheless, I'll wait for other mentioned example to validate that there are no additional changes to be done.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/154 "2025-05-14T21:23:22Z")
Yeah, it seems that they've buffed (or are starting to buff) their CF configuration again.
Hopefully it'll be only a hiccup and things will go back to normal soon.
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### Author:  [@chthonic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chthonic)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/155 "2025-05-15T00:59:59Z")
I checked, and it was the same artist that I was remembering lol. On the CF side, Hopefully it is just a hiccup as I have not yet had problems connecting.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/156 "2025-05-15T02:05:36Z")
Ok, cool!
In that case I'll be pushing a new version for that specific script in the next couple of hours.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/157 "2025-05-17T19:43:07Z")
Hi all.
A new update has been released (v2025.05.17), and is available on Github repository.
Fixed:
- Issue when retrieving Band information for some bands (thanks @chthonic for reporting this one).
Please let me know if there are any additional issues and/or comments.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Jaeger1349](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jaeger1349)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/158 "2025-05-18T08:12:11Z")
Nice Anton, I'll check it out! I've been a little busy, so I'll be coming & going to reporting issues or whatever.
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@Jaeger1349](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jaeger1349)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/159 "2025-05-18T08:14:51Z")
> [@chthonic](#):
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> On the CF side, Hopefully it is just a hiccup as I have not yet had problems connecting.
If it's useful for you, try to use a VPN to dodge some of the CF blocking (as a user, I've been using australian IP's and all goes well, no blocking nor lagging).
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### Author:  [@MONIKADAVRE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MONIKADAVRE)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/160 "2025-05-18T22:15:14Z")
I have an idea, to add total track number with the new plugin
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### Author:  [@Jaeger1349](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jaeger1349)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/161 "2025-05-19T03:00:37Z")
That's a nice idea! To know beforehand what version to look up based in your own files 🙂
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/162 "2025-05-19T05:39:06Z")
Hi there,
Unfortunately, after doing some tests about this, it looks that it won't be possible to implement due to available data provided by MA during search ☹ (current scripts are using pretty much all available fields).
Nonetheless, tomorrow I'll try a couple of additional tests to see if by using different filters we can get an album's track count, although I'm not having too many hopes, specially as there are no (obvious) options on the UI/web page that can be used for track count.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Jaeger1349](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jaeger1349)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/163 "2025-08-22T15:23:56Z")
It seems to be the script has been CF blocked, it gives the “403 forbidden” error:
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