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Amtrak fare-scraping service
https://railforless.us/
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Search stalls after looking for first train #1

Closed spolcyn closed 1 year ago

spolcyn commented 1 year ago

Thanks for building this app! Very useful feature to have.

Noticed that searches now fail on searching for the first train, with an error message like:

12%
Fetching date 1 of 8
No trains found!

An example query to generate that would be NYP -> PHL 1/18/23 to 1/25/23

tikkisean commented 1 year ago

Sorry about that, looks like the app was using invalid proxy credentials because my subscription from my proxy provider had expired without notifying me. I just ran your request and it appears to be working now with a fresh set of proxies. There are enough unpredictable variables at play with this site that going forward I might need to implement a status checker that can run test requests at a given interval and notify me of future problems when they occur.

redwearer commented 11 months ago

Seeing this issue again I think

tikkisean commented 11 months ago

The ongoing CAPTCHA issues are separate from the above issue, you can read more about them in the October 2nd announcement on the site. I just haven't had the time the past couple months to fix this as its an issue fundamental to the way the scraping algorithm is designed, I expect to have the site redesign complete within a month, check dev.railforless.us for the latest progress. In the meantime CAPTCHA will remain an issue except during the very late night hours.