I have had a small script running hourly for years, it only exists on my local machine. It simply gets the data for all my games (views, downloads, purchases)
Recently (I noticed today but it seems to have been happening all weekend) it started returning 429 Too Many Requests from openresty.
I revoked my API key and generated a new one, and the script worked one time, and an hour later when it fired again it returned 429 Too Many Requests.
Have there been some changes?
ddos counter measures can have longer side effects. And when I say that 429 does happen occasionally without ddos, read that as: it happened but I did not notice any ddos statement. Might as well have been a ddos every time. But what is a ddos? It is literally what the error message says. Too many requests. That can happen for other reasons as well. Like when there is a sale or some games get viral or whatever.
https://itch.io/t/3529420/http-429-due-to-an-oversight-in-item-updates
Relevant post from early this year if this happens to be the case still.
