API throwing 500s for hours now?

It's been a few hours; API is throwing 500s.
A page with the service status and a summary of what's going on wouldn't hurt.

Intermittently returns normal, but down probably 99%

nah, it's down. down bad. haven't been successful since this morn.

Yeah it's still down.

Still down, any information would be appreciated!

Weird that this is the only way to get comic meta on the internet and it's owned by a company that exists primarily as a hedge fund money laundromat and meme stonk generator.

maybe this is the moment to think about creating an alternative....

@andrelopes: And I'll second your suggestion

Isn't all of the information in it user submitted anyway? What's to prevent somebody from making their own version of this that works?

speaking of memes...

Yep, still down.

@chrishadley: The only thing I can think of to prevent that is a large amount of work.

This means you're volunteering, yes?

Still having the same error.
Any word at all from comicvine?

I opened a ticket by emailing support@comicvine.com on Wednesday. I verified that a ticket was created at comicvinehelp.zendesk.com, but I have not received an update yet.

I've just submitted a ticket too - hopefully more reports may lead to a prompt fix

I just submitted a ticket as well. Trying to add to the amount of support tickets they are getting.

Ditto to the tickets

@khameleon05: I did a ticket too. I'm an infrastructure guy, I can build and host a server, and probably run software that somebody else wrote...

just out of curiosity you all need it for comicrack too ?

@thecollectorx: ABSOLUTELY!

@unclerandy1969: nice :)

I'm here for Comicrack Community Edition

Ok, good to know it's not just me. Lol not gonna complain about a free service though.

free is looking kinda expensive right now though, we kinda got all our eggs in this basket. we need to convince LoCG to make their API public

I hope this will be fixed. Have put my share of information on Comicvine over the years. I rely on CV to get comics with correct information in Comicrack organized. There is no alternative as far as I know, so we need to get this API back up I guess.

A question about Comicrack... is there any place with any update from 0.9.178? And a place to get plugins?

@gvc: 0.9.178 was the last version before the project was abandoned by the original developer. Nowadays, the community has taken over development and you can find the latest version of the Community Edition here: https://github.com/maforget/ComicRackCE If you scroll down that page a bit you'll find a section that details the steps you need to upgrade from ComicRack to ComicRackCE. You can also find a list of plugins at the bottom of that page.

@hyperspacerebel: Thanks!!!!

Now, just waiting API is on again

@thecollectorx: I use it for Calibre.

Just replying to get updates

tag

bump

updates

@tatsumasadf: Same. I've been getting the 500s for two days now. What sucks more is my project (ComiXed) has a big release scheduled for next week and we have a bug around scraping that can't be worked on till CV is update and running again. :(

Still down.

@mcpierce: oh i head about that one cant wait to try it

Posting in the hopes of an update.

also hoping for an update on this. it's been days.

My comics are piling up, without being able to update their data... I need my treasureeeeeee

Still no news? Did they start a premium service we are unaware of?

I just want it to work again just discovered it a few days ago and the day after it stopped working, I thought maybe I hit the API too many times.

@chrishadley: is anyone getting any responses to the tickets that have lodged? There doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgement even within the forums from the people who can fix this.

waiting for update

I found out about Metron thanks to this API outage. It's a comic book database that's been worked on for a while now and has an API. I've seen Mylar and Kavita are looking into adding support for it, not sure about anyone else.

Currently you can use it with some versions of ComicTagger.

https://metron.cloud

I've been going through and adding a bunch of data to it so I can tag my whole library.

Anyone who wants to help out or has any questions can get in touch here: https://matrix.to/#/#metrondb:matrix.org

waiting comfortably for the update :P

@nerrad: Nothing, my ticket hasn't been assigned a priority so I'm guessing it hasn't even been looked at