I have been dealing with this problem for over 5 months.
I have the same problem 
Iâve trying using internet connection with and without VPN, and nothing happened. So, maybe this is a temporal blocking (I hope 
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Me too and unfortunately without results 
Yeah, it looks like that they have increased their security again and also it seems that all (initial) requests through a web browser are getting validated.
So, yeah, once again we are out of luck until they decide to bring down the shields to a reasonable level, or a workaround is found[1].
[^1]: As I mentioned before, I know of a potential workaround used by other applications (changing used UserAgent used by script), but unfortunately as far as I am aware it cannot be implemented due to technical limitations.
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Hi! Try using a VPN, probably your IP is blocked by CF to use the script. It happens the same thing when use the script without a VPN connection.
I tried using free vpn extensions for Chrome, still no luck!
Have you tried a system-wide VPN instead a browser extension? Something like mullvad, or ProtonVPN.
I usually use the latter, and although the free version have a limited server selection for simple stuff it works very well.
Awesome! Glad to hear that it worked for you 
Regards!
Maybe itâll sound obvious⌠But have to ask: have you tried to connect again to Netherlands? As that was the one that was working before.
I mean, maybe whatever IP that VPN was/is taken from there hasnât been flagged yet by CF⌠also I think that on free tier Japan is also available.
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I tried all avaliable free connectionsâŚno luck..
Thank you for your recommendations 
I tried to with ProtonVPN but unfortunately I always have the problem 403.
Well⌠It seems that whatever hit MA, hit hard enough for them to have that high protection level.
In any case thatâs something that needs to be solved/changes no their end. Letâs hope that things will go back to ânormalâ soon.
The scripts started to work out of the blue.
However the band info script still returns forbidden error.
OS: WÄ°ndows 10
Scripts: GitHub - antonio-gil/Mp3Tag_WS_MetalArchives: MP3Tag scripts for pulling data from Metal Archives
Hi there!
Thank you for letting me know about that. Iâll take a look later today once I go out from office, and will let you know what I can find.
By the way, in the past couple of weeks I have been working on a workaround that is kinda âtechnicalâ (i.e., that needs a little bit more than just copy-past scripts), and I donât know if you would like to test that one in case that solves your issues.
Iâm currently polishing it a little bit, but it can be ready to be shared around next week.
cc. @MONIKADAVRE , and @Jaeger1349 - as I know that you' also have faced 403 error in the past.
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Thanks a lot, and Iâm ready for a test !
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