Hydra 403 Forbidden error prevents me from reporting build failures

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Hello!

Nixpkgs now has a new template for reporting build failures. The new template says:

Can Hydra, Nixpkgs’ Continuous Integration system, reproduce this build failure?
Please use the search function in the header bar to locate the last build job for the package in question.

The issue template has that question marked as a required question, but I can’t answer it because I can’t access Hydra. Whenever I try to go to https://hydra.nixos.org, I always get a 403 Forbidden error. I found some other Hydra links here, but those links also give me 403 Forbidden errors.

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Something is wrong with your user agent. Hydra is now blocking connections from clients that look like scrapers.

Please set a proper User-Agent when scraping hydra.nixos.org, so we can reach out to you, when you are overloading the machine!

  • Martin Weinelt

cc @hexa

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Please DM me anything I can use to identify your requests, like IP address or user-agent.

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It turns out that I had this extension installed and active. It looks like I have been unintentionally spoofing my User-Agent string for a long time. I uninstalled the extension, and I was able to use Hydra again. Thanks for the tip!