[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

Thanks everyone for quickly chiming in. As suggested, was the phabricator task opened with all details for further investigation? If so, please share the phab task id. Thanks, Kavitha Appakayala Senior Manager, Site Reliability Team Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 10:36 PM Giuseppe

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

Hi, without further details on what requests you make, what user-agent your script uses, and the times at which you've seen this issue, it's going to be hard to help you. My bet is that you've incurred into one of our throttling/anti-abuse rules. If you open a task on phabricator with details

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

I know. As I said before, this literally started on the first request I made. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. On Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 at 12:23 AM, Dalba wrote: > Maybe this is not it, but worth checking: "Make your requests in series > rather than in

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

Maybe this is not it, but worth checking: "Make your requests in series rather than in parallel, by waiting for one request to finish before sending a new request."[1] [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:45 AM ovskmendov--- via Wikitech-l <

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

>Maybe someone else is doing it from the same IP, or maybe it's a bug. You >could[file a >report](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/43/)in >Phabricator with the details of what you are doing and the details from that >error page. Given that I have a clean residential

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 8:53 PM ovskmendov--- via Wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > I am not sending very many requests. I haven’t sent any requests in > several days and yet I get the error message. > Maybe someone else is doing it from the same IP, or maybe it's a bug. You

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

Sorry I should have elaborated further. I have had a script for a long time that gathers some information from Wikipedia. I only run it occasionally and it doesn’t make very many requests. I hadn’t run in a few days and when I ran it today, I got that error message and can’t seem to fix it.

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

I am not sending very many requests. I haven’t sent any requests in several days and yet I get the error message. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. On Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 at 11:43 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > You should probably send requests less frequently, you

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

You should probably send requests less frequently, you are hitting some sort of throttling. (And we should probably show a more comprehensible error page. Filed as T354718 .) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list --

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

Action api. Here's the full response from the server: Wikimedia Error * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { background: #fff; font: 15px/1.6 sans-serif; color: #333; } .content { margin: 7% auto 0; padding: 2em 1em 1em; max-width: 640px; } .footer { clear: both; margin-top: 14%; border-top:

[Wikitech-l] Re: API issue

On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 02:29 +, ovskmendov--- via Wikitech-l wrote: > Whenever I access the API, I get "Wikimedia Error: Our servers are > currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem." Access how exactly? Which of the APIs (Action API, REST API, etc)? Via which API calls?