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Suddenly getting 429 Too Many Requests?

A topic by gingerbeardman created 2 days ago Views: 138 Replies: 5

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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?

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No Time To PlayModerator2 days ago(+1)

The site was under a DDoS attack yesterday. That might have something to do with it.

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GameWhale Studios2 days ago

Thanks for the heads up!

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gingerbeardman1 day ago (2 edits)

Could be.

Though 429 error still happening for me as of right now, so is this site still being DDoSed?

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redonihunter1 day ago

429 happens occasionally without ddos. If you wait 10 seconds and reload and it does not go away, wait a bit longer before retry.

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gingerbeardman9 hours ago (3 edits)

I’m getting 429 when I make my hourly request, and I don’t make any requests outside of that. I’m seeing wider reports of 429 error.

That’s to say my experience does not align with yours.

And before last week it worked just fine.

If it’s not DDoS something has changed.

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