Starting about a week ago, I’ve started to get 429 Too Many Requests errors whenever opening about every second or third page. I’m not spam-clicking anything. If I open dev tools, the error is “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)”. If I refresh the …

Is anyone else still encountering this issue? We had limited requests from a range of IP addresses to manage web crawler traffic, but we think it has been resolved. If it does happen again, please mention the country from which you are trying to access the website. Thanks!

presumably related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/too-many-requests-preventing-me-using-the-site/49153 ? I’ve had the same thing happening to me recently sporadically

[image] notechis: If I open dev tools, the error is “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)” what is the whole message? the message should also contain the request URL that is failing, as shown here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-for…

Nope, that’s the whole message. [Screenshot 2024-02-26 10.25.18] Same message each time, and through inaturalist.org .

go to the network monitor in the dev tools. can you see which item(s) are failing to load?

it looks like it’s the Observation page that the server is refusing the serve. i don’t see any problems from where i am (in the USA) though. the only common thread between you and thebeachcomber and the other person who noted similar issues is that you all seem to be working out of Australia. if y…

Interesting! I don’t have a VPN to test, but it does keep happening in private browsing.

hmmm… that’s probably the end of the troubleshooting that we can do from this end, and iNat staff will probably have to look into it. if you haven’t already, it might help to make a ticket over in the new HelpDesk , and that might attract iNat staff eyes faster.

Nope, that seems to have done the trick! Cheers.

Constant 429 errors

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tiwane Closed March 2, 2024, 4:00pm 13

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