import json
import urllib.request

jsonUrl = "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/planetoftheweb/98f35786733c8cccf81e/raw/f3dad774ed1fe20b36011b1261bb392ee759b867/data.json"
with urllib.request.urlopen(jsonUrl) as response:
   data = json.loads(response.read())
   print(data)

jsonUrl = "http://8ball.delegator.com/magic/JSON/blah"
with urllib.request.urlopen(jsonUrl) as response:
   data = json.loads(response.read())
   print(data)




error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
    with urllib.request.urlopen(jsonUrl) as response:
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 223, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden