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Didstopia
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Search endpoint returning 500 internal server error

This same API has been working solidly for years, but now in the past 2-ish days it has been returning more and more errors. Sometimes it works for quite a while, but sometimes it keeps erroring fo...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it. I'll follow up here once I have an update on this.

  • Didstopia's avatar
    Didstopia
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 years ago

    Just in case this information is useful, there are about 50 users every day, using about 10-20k API calls total.

    The issue might be worse the more API calls there are, but this is purely a guess and nothing more.

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      Greg-DB
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      5 years ago

      Thanks for the information!

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        5 years ago

        This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!

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