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Hey Yahoo! Consistent 400 Errors with tumblr.posts table%u2014even from YQL Console

Here's an example request:

select * from tumblr.posts where username='david'

Go to the YQL console and try that request 3 or 4 times (often less) and you get this:

{ "error": { "lang": "en-US", "description": "Could not load table tumblr.posts from http://www.datatables.org/tumblr/tumblr.posts.xml" } }

AKA 400 error.

Can someone from Yahoo please respond?

Thanks!

Here's the full request that'll fail too

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20tumblr.posts%20where%20username%3D'david'&format=json&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys&callback=

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  • It's possible that tumblr is rate limiting YQL.

    According to the tumblr API site: Requests are rate-limited to one every 10 seconds.

    http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api

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  • Thanks for the note.

    I'm skeptical that would be the case since those limits would make it unusable.

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  • YQL does some caching. But eventually you'll hit those limits.
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  • Well, something odd is going on since the table has become more stable in the last 24 hours.

    Did you do anything?

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  • Argh, Spoke to soon. Doing same thing again.

    Looks like we'll need to find an alternative.

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