Hi Shayne, I am sorry you experienced this error. It appears to have happened during a short system outage we had recently. The species URL you gave does work fine now.
This is a rather unusual thing and I hope you do not encounter this problem often. If it is a crucial piece of your system you could consider adding retries after failures or processing failed ids in a second run. If you hit a 503 error it is very likely that our entire API is down though (some seconds to a few minutes), so putting your script to sleep for a short time would be good. Hope it all works fine for you now. Please let us know is you still encounter problems! best, Markus -- Markus D?ring Software Developer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mdoering at gbif.org http://www.gbif.org On 07 Jul 2014, at 23:55, Urbanowski, Shayne <surbanowski at usgs.gov> wrote: > Hello- > > I have a list of 348782 taxonKeys for which I need the canonicalName. I'm > using the species web service (http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species) within a > script to get this data. The web service works well for the first 3000 or > 4000 records and then throws the following error. Can you assist me in > resolving (or working around) this issue. The list of taxonKeys is posted > at: ftp://bison.ornl.gov/pub/bison/out/outspecies1of2.txt > > http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/5278064 > > Error 503 Service Unavailable > Service Unavailable > Guru Meditation: > XID: 1016539404 > Varnish cache server > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Shayne Urbanowski > COMSO - USGS CSAS > surbanowski at usgs.gov > o: 303-202-4299 > m: 720-280-3210 > http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/ > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20140708/a4accc5a/attachment.html
