Random messages: Could not retrieve the checksums for version x.y.z of plugin-name about checksum-command HOT 7 CLOSED

Thanks for the additional details, @lotsofbytes.

I suspect the rate-limiting logic changed at some point, too. I've posed the question to the #meta channel in Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1659451832035669

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Some changes to rate-limits have been made, can anyone affected see if this is now resolved for them?

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I believe that the https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin-checksums/ API limits have been changed and the script is now hitting into "429 Too Many Requests" error.

@R33D3M33R Do you know how often your machine is hitting the plugin checksums API?

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@lotsofbytes Following up from #92: Do you know how often your machine is hitting the plugin checksums API? How many sites are you checking, how many plugins does each site have, and how often does your script run?

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My client has a aws ec2 that hosts 8 wp sites. A cron job script loops the sites and veryfies wp core and plugins.
The job runs only once a day.

The total number of plugins are 120. Here is the breakdown of the number of plugins for the sites.

Error: Only verified 12 of 14 plugins (1 failed, 1 skipped).
Error: Only verified 16 of 18 plugins (1 failed, 1 skipped).
Error: Only verified 37 of 45 plugins (7 failed, 1 skipped).
Error: Only verified 6 of 7 plugins (1 failed).
Error: Only verified 10 of 11 plugins (1 failed).
Error: Only verified 9 of 10 plugins (1 failed).
Error: Only verified 7 of 10 plugins (2 failed, 1 skipped).
Error: Only verified 7 of 8 plugins (1 failed).

I have added a 30 sec. sleep in the loop recently. It reduced the number of warnings but it still gets a coup of warnings of the checksum retrieval failure.

Thanks.

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Thanks.
It's working, no warnings anymore!

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@lotsofbytes Great, glad to hear!

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