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API errors with connection timeout in Russia
posted by nk11devSTAFFMOD on February 24, 2021 at 7:26 PM
Hi! I use TMDb API in my project and suddenly API stops working. Chrome developer console shows just "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT". This has been going on since yesterday. It is not my app error, because other github projects similar to my doesn't getting TMDb data too. You can see that behavior here: https://nk11dev-movies.herokuapp.com (when you first open data may be cached and all seems OK, but you can see API not fetching data if you try to change page and open the browser console and wait for 1-2 minutes).
As mentioned in that issue: https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/603668c62476f200402f73ca, I test my Example API Request in REST client and have error message "Error: Timeout was reached". I dont't think this is problem with my TMDb key, because, as I mentioned above similar TMDb sites from github can't fetch data too. Can you tell whats happen?
Please help!
Reply by mfa-project
on March 23, 2021 at 10:56 AM
If the file is opened with VIM ("vi /etc/hosts"), you just need to insert your line to the end of the file (press "i" to enter --INSERT-- mode, add "99.84.214.124 api.themoviedb.org", press ESC) and write ":wq" and press Enter, it will save and exit the file.
Reply by lotusd
on March 23, 2021 at 11:14 AM
thank you!
Reply by skyscr
on April 8, 2021 at 11:57 AM
BEST!!!
Reply by chervontsev
on April 24, 2021 at 10:08 AM
Hey guys
I had a similar issue so I came up with a small proxy solution: https://github.com/chervontsev/tmdb-proxy
Basically I created a proxy app on Heroku that passes all requests and responses to TMDB API and my app calls this proxy. I'm not sure it should be used for commercial purposes. But for a personal project it's probably fine : )
Link to thread with my issue: enter link description here