Never mind. I figured out the problems was I switched queries to ".xml" instead of ".json", and XML isn't one of the choices for the search API.
On Apr 21, 12:43 pm, hjl <hojohn....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm doing some testing this morning with the search API, which was > working for a while but now is returning HTTP 406 Not Acceptable. Is > this a symptom of the search API rate limiting? I ran a few queries > with curl by hand, then ran a loop to see how far back the results > pages go. > > The search API docs says rate limited requests should see 503 Service > Unavailable, was wondering if it changed. > > I'll try it again in an hour or so and see if the search API starts > responding again. But would still like to know if the response code > for search rate limiting has changed.