Trouble with importing a book from Gutenberg by URL in Cloud

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I want to import the plain text and assign it to the variable. I am doing it in the Wolfram Programming Cloud

LesMiserables = Import["http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/135/pg135.txt"];

When I press shift+enter, the output is as follows

The request to URL http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/135/pg135.txt was not successful. The server returned the HTTP 
status code 403 ("Forbidden")

I have tried importing the text from other websites but the error is always the same, so I assume there is not problem with the website, but with the code(cloud).

Could anyone help?

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Hi,

I am not sure whether this might help at all but if you try

lesMiserables=URLFetch["http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/135/pg135.txt"]

you get

Error

403

Error 403

Maybe you have just a
wrong url. Go to Search | Project Gutenberg first to see if the
error ersists.

If you get the error again check that
you:

  • Don’t use anonymizers, open proxies, VPNs, or TOR to
    access Project Gutenberg. This includes the oogle proxies that are
    used by Chrome.
  • Don’t access Project Gutenberg from hosted
    servers.
  • Don’t use automated software to download lots of
    books. We have a limit on how fast you can go hile using this site. If
    you surpass this limit you get blocked for 24h.
  • We have a
    daily limit on how many books you can download. If you exceeded this
    limit you get locked for 24h.
  • If you use the RSS feed, set
    your update interval to 24 hours.

If you are sure that
none of the above applies to you, and wish us to investigate the
problem,we need to know your IP address.Go to this site,don’t sign up, just
copy the IP address (it looks like: 12.34.56.78 but your numbers will
be different)andmail it to
us.If that page also shows a proxy address, we need that one too.

Now if you are on the Cloud and try to find out your IP address

= my IP

(,use the single equal sign not the double one,) you get something like 54.209.144.183

If you run a whois on it you will see something like

Amazon Technologies Inc. AMAZON-2011L

That is a hosted server. So it might be that Guttenberg just blocks it. That’s just a guess.

Cheers,
M.