Service Unavailable - GitHub API rate limit exceeded. Try again soon

[DougEbel]

Attempting to open a notebook from github, got the screen:

503 : Service Unavailable
GitHub API rate limit exceeded. Try again soon.

I see that it happened previously in the list of bugs. It has been an hour this time and it is still unavailable.

[DougEbel]

At 11:08 PM EDT the service is available again. Is there any tracking to determine who is exceeding the API rate limit?

[dirkroorda]

Same problem here.

[dirkroorda]

For me this error appears as soon as I enter a github organization in the url box of the nbviewer website. It is completely unusable now. For several weeks already.

[BrainAnnex]

Yes, it has basically been unusable for me (for the open source life123.science) FOR MONTHS! It occasionally works - but plenty of time it gives the dreaded "Service Unavailable - GitHub API rate limit exceeded. Try again soon". By the way, the "SOON" part is a joke! Typically, hours later, the message is the same :(((

I'm looking into running my own nbviewer server on my website, alas...

Two other threads have discussed this same issue - since 2017, eight years ago!, with no resolve: #673 and #856

[minrk]

Like much of the web, AI scraping bots are crushing nbviewer. We need to find a way to deploy some bot-blocking tools (e.g. blocking all incoming requests from known datacenter ip ranges). Other than that, all we can really do is more aggressive caching so folks can't force new requests, etc.

[niccolopetti]

I'm facing the same issue