# 403 Client Error when downloading ERA5-Land data from API

**URL:** <https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022>\
**Category:** Datasets and Usage\
**Tags:** access, era5-land\
**Created:** [27 January 2025 13:01 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022 "2025-01-27T13:01:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Benjamin_Rohrer)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2025 13:01 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022/1 "2025-01-27T13:01:43Z")

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Hello everyone,

I just got this error when downloading ERA5-Land data via the CDS API:

ERROR: Could not fetch data from CDS API: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: [https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/retrieve/v1/processes/reanalysis-era5-land/execution](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/retrieve/v1/processes/reanalysis-era5-land/execution)

Download form temporarily closed due to maintenance actions on data source (payload={‘variable’: [‘skin\_temperature’], ‘date’: ‘2025-01-13/2025-01-19’, ‘time’: [‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘10’, ‘11’, ‘12’, ‘13’, ‘14’, ‘15’, ‘16’, ‘17’, ‘18’, ‘19’, ‘20’, ‘21’, ‘22’, ‘23’], ‘area’: [90, -180, -90, 180], ‘format’: ‘grib’})

Does anyone know when it will be available again? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Michela](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Michela](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Michela)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2025 13:40 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022/2 "2025-01-27T13:40:46Z")

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Hi,  
could you please try now?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Benjamin_Rohrer)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2025 14:50 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022/3 "2025-01-27T14:50:20Z")

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Hi Michaela, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I’m still getting the same error.

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**Author:** ![Michela](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Michela](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Michela)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2025 15:20 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022/4 "2025-01-27T15:20:57Z")

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Hi,  
it is working now. Please try again and please make sure that you use the syntax from the webform for year, month and days.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Rohrer](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Benjamin_Rohrer)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2025 16:26 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/403-client-error-when-downloading-era5-land-data-from-api/11022/5 "2025-01-27T16:26:29Z")

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So, that means that we need to make two requests if the date spans two different months? E.g. ‘date’: ‘2025-01-13/2025-02-19’ does not work anymore? I have tried to change time to 00:00 format while keeping the date attribute, it has also not worked.

As an user I’d like to keep the date attribute because this is flexible enough to fetch the exact time period I need, without having to split my request in two, if I need a week over two months.