Issue in scraping pepperfry

[VarunSrivastavaIITD]

On trying out the scrapy shell on the homepage 'https://www.pepperfry.com/', i.e. "scrapy shell https://www.pepperfry.com/ --nolog" I get a 403 access denied response.

As suggested both on the scrapy docs as well as SO, this is probably due to anti scraping measures taken by the site. Can anyone please confirm if they are facing the same issue, since I assume getting around such measures wasn't the intention of the assignment?

P.S. To ensure there was nothing wrong with my scrapy setup, I tried the same on other websites too, which gave no such problems.

[vineetm]

Addressed in #6