wget/cURL unable to access https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server

I've been creating a Python utility that manages some of the more repetitive tasks of owning and setting up a Minecraft server. Part of this utility is responsible for pulling the HTML for the server download page (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server). It would then parse that HTML for the most recent server.jar download URL then subsequently pull the JAR.

I had this working perfectly for at least a month up until yesterday evening. While making some updates to the utility and testing this function suddenly stopped working and hung. Using the wget command within Linux I attempted to pull the HTML for the same page and it sat waiting for a response from your web servers. Trying a dozen times with no positive results I switched over to cURLt to see if I could pull that server download page. Upon executing the command I instantly  received an Access Denied message.

Finding this odd for I switched over to a browser then attempted to travel to that server download page. Upon trying I was able to successfully access the page with no issues. Therefore it appears that for some reason your web servers aren't liking requests from applications like wget/cURL. I tried these same tests on a server I own in a different geographical region but received the same results. Were there some changes recently made on your end that caused this to happen? ...or is it possible that I might have tripped a security mechanism?