Geopy Not Working in Streamlit Cloud

[shekhar-banerjee96]

Summary

Geopy not Working on Streamlit Cloud , but working on Local system

Steps to reproduce

Code snippet:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent = "geoapiExercises")


def countries(x):
    #This function will use the Geolocator API and find the Country of the user. 
    # We split the result and provided the last part which contains the country name.
     
    try:
        location = geolocator.geocode(x,language='en',timeout=None)
        return str(location.raw['display_name'].split(',')[-1]).strip()
    except :
        return None

st.header(countries('Delhi'))

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Expected behavior:

the function works for this input in local env , but does not work for any input in Streamlit Cloud env

Actual behavior:

This Should return ‘India’ but gives error
**geopy.exc.GeocoderInsufficientPrivileges: Non-successful status code 403**

Debug info

• Streamlit version: streamlit-1.22.0
• Python version: 3.9
• Using streamlit Cloud
• OS version: NA
• Browser version: Latest

Requirements file

scikit-learn
nltk
emoji==2.2.0
wordcloud==1.8.2.2
tweepy
seaborn==0.12.2
geopy==2.3.0

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• Link to your deployed app:

Additional information

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[snehankekre]

@shekhar-banerjee96

geopy.exc.GeocoderInsufficientPrivileges: Non-successful status code 403

From a StackOverflow thread about the error message, the issue seems to be with the user_agent. The geoapiExercises user agent has been in use for years and is likely blocked by the API. The Geopy installation docs also stress using a custom user agent for your app.

Could you try changing the user agent to another string? Additionally, please share the links to both your GitHub repo and app.

I was able to successfully deploy the app and have it return India with your code above (but changing the user agent to abcd and the following requirements.txt:

geopy==2.3.0
streamlit==1.22.0