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AllenEllis / EverySingleMonth

Meme Generator for Every Single Month
https://everysinglemonth.org
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Error: Sorry, our API provider (DataUSA) is not responding at this time. #13

Closed AllenEllis closed 4 years ago

AllenEllis commented 4 years ago

I assumed this error would only appear if DataUSA was overloaded with requests. Someone reported that it can be consistently reproduced by searching for "Inman, SC"

https://everysinglemonth.org/index.php?action=process&city_name=Inman%2C+SC&city=16000US4535755

AllenEllis commented 4 years ago

Well, now this one works. I guess it is nice that the code is resilient - I watched it notice the corrupt data and request it again. So perhaps this is a legitimate error and people should just try again later?

I notice plenty of people experiencing it in the logs though. Will attempt to look through the logs for another example.

AllenEllis commented 4 years ago

Now I'm inclined to think that this is exactly what the error indicates: DataUSA is having a hiccup and the only recourse is to try later.

I was online last light when a bunch of people were getting this error - I was too, and even from other servers and home IP address. Not a single error of this since last night, so unless there's an indication that my code is at fault, I'm going to call this a server problem at their end and close it.