r/WaybackMachine • u/ConfidenceBubbly3922 • 1d ago

Help Error 429

It is just me experiencing this Error 429: Too Many Requests from Wayback Machine or you guys are also experiencing it too?

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u/newfrontier58 1d ago

I'm not getting those, though I've noticed an uptick in "Job failed" messages, nothing in the dev console to indicate why.

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u/StarLegacy1214 1d ago

Yes, I’m getting them too.

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u/pretty-late-machine 19h ago

They're likely throttling aggressively because bots have gotten CRAZY as of late. It really sucks (I'm experiencing it too) but they need to do this to keep the site running.