# RSS read and HTTP request 403 forbidden error

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805 "2025-08-19T14:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![zxc123456789](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7cd45c/32.png) [@zxc123456789](https://community.n8n.io/u/zxc123456789)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805/1 "2025-08-19T14:56:52Z")

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## Describe the problem/error/question

I’m new to n8n and not a coder, just trying to set things up with help from AI [I follow AI to ad header]. However, I keep getting a **403 Forbidden error** when I use the **HTTP Request** or **RSS Read** node to fetch data from websites.

I followed a tutorial on YouTube and copy-pasted the exact same feed links (e.g. `https://www.blognone.com/feed/`), but instead of getting results, I only get the 403 error.

What I’ve tried so far:

- Adding a **User-Agent header** +value(Mozilla/5.0)

- Enabling **Ignore SSL**

Unfortunately, none of these worked. I’m not sure if these websites are blocking n8n automation scrapping or if I’m missing something (since the tutorial didn’t run into this error]

 ![Screenshot 2025-08-19 215309](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/9/4/94a937662789a55190e6256c07a240214260b4ef.png)

 ![3bc3f179-3e10-49a8-9e37-79f01d075ae7](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/5/f/5f53c953c7163d594cd0505e973d1408df89ed8a.png)

 ![10bc3342-cb83-42c3-836f-c25e2070fe46](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/0/0/00ef5968812700afbbc54ed79d11d73baea14191.png)

## What is the error message (if any)?

Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials?  
403 Forbidden nginx/1.20.0  
Status code 403

## Please share your workflow

```auto
(Select the nodes on your canvas and use the keyboard shortcuts CMD+C/CTRL+C and CMD+V/CTRL+V to copy and paste the workflow.)
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://droidsans.com/feed/",
        "options": {}
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead",
      "typeVersion": 1.2,
      "position": [
        224,
        -80
      ],
      "id": "a53d5848-1363-450d-97f8-5ebaea76479e",
      "name": "droidsan"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "maxItems": 2
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.limit",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        448,
        112
      ],
      "id": "80d3c686-dba4-4098-8bbb-fc92714e772d",
      "name": "Limit"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "operation": "append",
        "documentId": {
          "__rl": true,
          "value": "1-X4QKpF-tb-PVdh-v6Wvk4wR5GpoY0hUhH9XlNcDaO8",
          "mode": "list",
          "cachedResultName": "RSS 3 web n8n",
          "cachedResultUrl": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-X4QKpF-tb-PVdh-v6Wvk4wR5GpoY0hUhH9XlNcDaO8/edit?usp=drivesdk"
        },
        "sheetName": {
          "__rl": true,
          "value": "gid=0",
          "mode": "list",
          "cachedResultName": "Sheet1",
          "cachedResultUrl": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-X4QKpF-tb-PVdh-v6Wvk4wR5GpoY0hUhH9XlNcDaO8/edit#gid=0"
        },
        "columns": {
          "mappingMode": "defineBelow",
          "value": {
            "title": "={{ $json.title }}",
            "Link": "={{ $json.link }}",
            "date": "={{ $json.pubDate }}"
          },
          "matchingColumns": [],
          "schema": [
            {
              "id": "date",
              "displayName": "date",
              "required": false,
              "defaultMatch": false,
              "display": true,
              "type": "string",
              "canBeUsedToMatch": true
            },
            {
              "id": "title",
              "displayName": "title",
              "required": false,
              "defaultMatch": false,
              "display": true,
              "type": "string",
              "canBeUsedToMatch": true
            },
            {
              "id": "Link",
              "displayName": "Link",
              "required": false,
              "defaultMatch": false,
              "display": true,
              "type": "string",
              "canBeUsedToMatch": true
            }
          ],
          "attemptToConvertTypes": false,
          "convertFieldsToString": false
        },
        "options": {}
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets",
      "typeVersion": 4.7,
      "position": [
        672,
        112
      ],
      "id": "76418a9e-12e1-43ea-a69b-34980267f994",
      "name": "Append row in sheet",
      "credentials": {
        "googleSheetsOAuth2Api": {
          "id": "jSAn5rSdjsMHuBzP",
          "name": "Google Sheets account"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "rule": {
          "interval": [
            {
              "field": "cronExpression",
              "expression": "40 21 * * *"
            },
            {
              "field": "cronExpression",
              "expression": "42 21 * * *"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
      "typeVersion": 1.2,
      "position": [
        -80,
        112
      ],
      "id": "97fa5e5b-3cbc-468c-8d78-ef6cd8f1944f",
      "name": "Schedule Trigger"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://xn--42cah7d0cxcvbbb9x.com/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89/",
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "User-Agent",
              "value": " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
            },
            {}
          ]
        },
        "options": {}
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        224,
        304
      ],
      "id": "1fb93773-ab92-4a76-9fe0-1e9d93a24210",
      "name": "HTTP Request"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://www.blognone.com/feed/",
        "options": {
          "ignoreSSL": true
        }
      },
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead",
      "typeVersion": 1.2,
      "position": [
        224,
        112
      ],
      "id": "b0ab7636-6fc1-4085-9780-221142029ff4",
      "name": "blognone.com",
      "alwaysOutputData": false
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "droidsan": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Limit",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Limit": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Append row in sheet",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Schedule Trigger": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "droidsan",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          },
          {
            "node": "blognone.com",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          },
          {
            "node": "Limit",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          },
          {
            "node": "HTTP Request",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "HTTP Request": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Limit",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "blognone.com": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Limit",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "pinData": {},
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true,
    "instanceId": "0ff055bf69f9e831b82bc10646b53ca0b614976c9c1a12149d9852c6cc7af936"
  }
}

```

## Share the output returned by the last node

1. **RSS Read node ([blognone.com/feed/](http://blognone.com/feed/)):**  
`Status code 403`
2. \*\*HTTP Request node: (\*\*[https://ทองคําราคา.com/ราคาน้ำมันวันนี้/](https://xn--42cah7d0cxcvbbb9x.com/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89/)):  
`Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials? 403 Forbidden nginx/1.20.0`

## Information on your n8n setup

- **n8n version:** 1.106.3
- **Database (default: SQLite):** I don’t know
- **n8n EXECUTIONS\_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):** Default
- **Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):** n8n cloud
- **Operating system:** I don’t know

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**Author:** ![jabbson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/jabbson/32/87328_2.png) [@jabbson](https://community.n8n.io/u/jabbson)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805/2 "2025-08-19T15:06:29Z")

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Try using one of these urls in RSS node:

https://www.blognone.com/node/feed?destination=/taxonomy/term/13310/feed&\_exception\_statuscode=404

https://www.blognone.com/node/feed?destination=/&\_exception\_statuscode=404

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**Author:** ![zxc123456789](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7cd45c/32.png) [@zxc123456789](https://community.n8n.io/u/zxc123456789)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805/3 "2025-08-22T07:57:06Z")

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> [@jabbson](#):
>
> [Blognone - ข่าวไอที เทคโนโลยี มือถือ เกม ความปลอดภัย โอเพนซอร์ส](https://www.blognone.com/node/feed?destination=/taxonomy/term/13310/feed&%5C_exception_statuscode=404)

Thank you so much. Now it works for RSS Read, but I am still struggling for HTTP request. Is there any suggestion how I can try to overcome the 403 error. I’ve tried to change format (as you given ending with feed&\_exception\_statuscode=404) for my target website.  
Link for the website to get HTTP request ([https://ทองคําราคา.com/ราคาน้ำมันวันนี้/](https://xn--42cah7d0cxcvbbb9x.com/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89/))

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/3/c/3cbde37e92a56dbdaeba35ed1f0f6ddabfe3d625.png)

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**Author:** ![jabbson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/jabbson/32/87328_2.png) [@jabbson](https://community.n8n.io/u/jabbson)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805/4 "2025-08-22T19:27:04Z")

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> [@zxc123456789](#):
>
> ราคาน้ำมันวันนี้ ราคาน้ำมันพรุ่งนี้ อัปเดตราคาน้ำมันล่าสุด

When I try to request the url you provided

[https://ทองคําราคา.com/ราคาน้ำมันวันนี้/](https://xn--42cah7d0cxcvbbb9x.com/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89/)

in http request node, it doesn’t fail for me.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/6/8/6884e55e421d0c10b9e55a2f02c299d2952f47d6.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/system/32/195824_2.png) [@system](https://community.n8n.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/rss-read-and-http-request-403-forbidden-error/171805/5 "2025-11-20T19:27:22Z")

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