[GNC] Issue with Finance::Quote

[bernard at deprez.biz]

Hi Bruce,

I wasn't aware of the IP tracking and that may be the explanation - 
without my knowledge, somebody else in my household was playing around 
with a Node-RED flow that was pulling a request from Alphavantage each 
minute with a third API key :-)  We've now tuned that flow back to once 
every 4 hours (which is totally adequate for our use case)

I'll have to give it another try tomorrow (the flow has been up and 
running overnight) and see if all is back to normal.

I'm super thankful for your help & mentioning the below!!!
B.

On 28/07/2023 16:24, Bruce Schuck wrote:
> On 7/28/23 12:31 PM, bernard at deprez.biz wrote:
>
>> {
>>      "Information": "Thank you for using Alpha Vantage! You have 
>> reached the 100 requests/day limit for your free API key. Please 
>> subscribe to any of the premium plans at 
>> https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ to instantly remove all daily 
>> rate limits."
>> }
>
>> The interesting part is that the original API key I have was used 
>> perhaps 15 times today, the second API key mentioned above wasn't 
>> used today at all... And I have no automation nor CRON/scheduled 
>> tasks anywhere that use either API...
>
> Bernard,
>
> Are you connecting from home, work, or through something like NordVPN?
>
> I found out while doing a PoC of using a different key for each 
> request to avoid needing to throttle requests (I stumbled onto the 
> fact that almost any random string will work as an API key) that their 
> limitation is also likely based on source IP. After 5 requests using 5 
> different generated random API keys, the 6th request with a different 
> API within a minute will get the message about the 5 per minute 
> limitation.
>
> If you are on a network where multiple people happen to be using 
> AlphaVantage, this could be the cause of the AlphaVantage limit message.
>
> That said, please open an issue at 
> https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues. I identified 
> where the AlphaVantage module may not be catching this particular 
> failure, since I suspected it may be that you have surpassed a 
> daily/monthly limit and was looking into it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bruce.
>