Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??
Hi Tim, Whatever you all did yesterday afternoon seems to have done the trick, at least for my queries. And thanks Marie for the suggestion. I'll make sure to look into the next time I need to query the database for a bunch of taxa. Thanks for everything you all do, Will [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.gif] William Gearty Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Biological Sciences williamgearty.com<http://williamgearty.com> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:57 AM Tim Robertson mailto:trobert...@gbif.org>> wrote: Hi William I am very sorry to you (and everyone) that you are experiencing this. We have an unusual load coming on GBIF.org which is causing us some issues, and we are doing all we can to address this. I hope things will be back to normal later today. Please feel free to contact me directly if you continue to have issue (trobert...@gbif.org<mailto:trobert...@gbif.org>) after today. Thanks, Tim From: API-users mailto:api-users-boun...@lists.gbif.org>> on behalf of William Gearty mailto:wgea...@unl.edu>> Date: Monday, 4 November 2019 at 23.41 To: "API-users@lists.gbif.org<mailto:API-users@lists.gbif.org>" mailto:API-users@lists.gbif.org>> Subject: [API-users] Intermittent outages?? Hi all, I've noticed some intermittent outages lately, specifically with the occurrences API. I'm trying to query the occurrences API via rgbif for a bunch of taxa in a loop, and I keep getting "Error: 500 - Server error" and I have to restart my loop. Any idea when the resource will be permanently stable again? Thanks, Will [Image removed by sender.] William Gearty Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Biological Sciences williamgearty.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__williamgearty.com=DwMGaQ=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo=YNd8QtTlTk3ZL6_tL7DiQw=zE_RgEWcFWkkNAHJeiQaDYLDAMgUmTOeumxBHZd2OZs=OmQoMaU2LCtMCupxijo82mptO2Oor16Lk60DdAOaUSI=> ___ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??
Hi William I am very sorry to you (and everyone) that you are experiencing this. We have an unusual load coming on GBIF.org which is causing us some issues, and we are doing all we can to address this. I hope things will be back to normal later today. Please feel free to contact me directly if you continue to have issue (trobert...@gbif.org<mailto:trobert...@gbif.org>) after today. Thanks, Tim From: API-users on behalf of William Gearty Date: Monday, 4 November 2019 at 23.41 To: "API-users@lists.gbif.org" Subject: [API-users] Intermittent outages?? Hi all, I've noticed some intermittent outages lately, specifically with the occurrences API. I'm trying to query the occurrences API via rgbif for a bunch of taxa in a loop, and I keep getting "Error: 500 - Server error" and I have to restart my loop. Any idea when the resource will be permanently stable again? Thanks, Will [Image removed by sender.] William Gearty Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Biological Sciences williamgearty.com<http://williamgearty.com> ___ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??
Hi William, It seems that a lot of users have been querying the search API lately, which puts a strain on the GBIF backend (especially it comes to deep paging) and makes it slow for everyone. The solution is to use the download API instead. In other words, use the occ_download()<https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rgbif/versions/1.3.0/topics/occ_download> function instead of the occ_search()<https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rgbif/versions/1.3.0/topics/occ_search> function. Using the download API would also allow you to get all your species in one download making it more convenient for citations later on because you would have only one DOI to cite. This blogpost give an example of R code to generate a download of a long list of species: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/downloading-long-species-lists-on-gbif/ I hope this helps! Cheers Marie From: API-users on behalf of William Gearty Date: Monday, 4 November 2019 at 23.41 To: "API-users@lists.gbif.org" Subject: [API-users] Intermittent outages?? Hi all, I've noticed some intermittent outages lately, specifically with the occurrences API. I'm trying to query the occurrences API via rgbif for a bunch of taxa in a loop, and I keep getting "Error: 500 - Server error" and I have to restart my loop. Any idea when the resource will be permanently stable again? Thanks, Will [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.gif] William Gearty Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Biological Sciences williamgearty.com<http://williamgearty.com> ___ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
