Multiple APIs not working

[thomaswp]

As of posting (10/26/23), a number of APIs were not working due to out of date API keys or other errors:

• The MovieDB API gives the error: "ninvoke is not a function". (e.g. see Hidden Figures demo)
• The Nexrad Radar / plotRadarImages gives the error "The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records."
• The FBICrimeData API key is out of date
• ParallelDots / getEmotion hangs forever (other calls do work)
• The Twitter API doesn't work (as previously reported in #127)

I imagine web scraping for LLMs is causing a lot API changes and headaches for your team - thanks for looking into these.

[brollb]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for flagging these. The MovieDB error has been fixed and the Nexrad, FBICrimeData, and Twitter services have been removed. (They were normally hidden due to stability issues but were inadvertently shown after the latest server update - which included a few bigger changes to the infrastructure.) We are working on stabilizing the FBICrimeData service and hopefully can make that data available before too long.

The Parallel Dots API can be a bit flaky, unfortunately. Usually it is fine but I have noticed that sometimes an RPC can hang and have issues as you described above. We can look more into adding a timeout on our side to make sure errors are presented more nicely to the user but I am afraid the source of the issue is outside of our control.

Thanks again for the ping!