# Error in downloading file with wget

**URL:** <https://forum.depmap.org/t/error-in-downloading-file-with-wget/1225>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Created:** [February 28, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/error-in-downloading-file-with-wget/1225 "2022-02-28T13:51:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@tom](https://forum.depmap.org/u/tom)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/error-in-downloading-file-with-wget/1225/1 "2022-02-28T13:51:54Z")

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I was trying to download the metabolomics data set from Depmap portal (Link below)

[https://depmap.org/portal/download/data\_slicer/download?file\_path=20220227%2F3c335b7d-c18e-4788-b2e6-512d71f0a339%2Fexport.csv&name=Metabolomics.csv](https://depmap.org/portal/download/data_slicer/download?file_path=20220227%2F3c335b7d-c18e-4788-b2e6-512d71f0a339%2Fexport.csv&name=Metabolomics.csv)

I am using the following command in the server

wget ‘[https://depmap.org/portal/download/data\_slicer/download?file\_path=20220227%2F3c335b7d-c18e-4788-b2e6-512d71f0a339%2Fexport.csv&name=Metabolomics.csv](https://depmap.org/portal/download/data_slicer/download?file_path=20220227%2F3c335b7d-c18e-4788-b2e6-512d71f0a339%2Fexport.csv&name=Metabolomics.csv)’

However, I am getting error 403: Forbidden.

Is there any figshare link available for this dataset?

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**Author:** ![pmontgom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.depmap.org/pmontgom/32/4_2.png) [@pmontgom](https://forum.depmap.org/u/pmontgom)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/error-in-downloading-file-with-wget/1225/2 "2022-03-01T15:44:01Z")

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It’s not in figshare, however, it is accessible in the “Download files” section of the portal:  
[CCLE\_metabolomics\_20190502.csv](https://depmap.org/portal/download/all/?releasename=CCLE+2019&filename=CCLE_metabolomics_20190502.csv)

As for why wget is giving you a “403: Forbidden” it looks like in 2019 someone overwhelmed the site by scraping the whole thing via wget and we banned wget from the portal at that time. We now have better protection against one user overwhelming the portal, so I’ll remove that and wget should work again.

I just verified that I was able to download CCLE\_metabolomics\_20190502.csv via wget, so you should be all set now.

Thanks,  
Phil