[BUG] cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex does not provide data

[kramarek]

As of today, get_fgindex no longer provides any data. There were no problems yesterday.

> cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex(from = as.Date("2024-01-01"), to = as.Date("2024-06-01"))
Error in `cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex()`:
! Timeout was reached: [api.alternative.me] Failed to connect to api.alternative.me port
  443 after 10001 ms: Timeout was reached
Run `rlang::last_trace()` to see where the error occurred.

> rlang::last_trace()
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex()`:
! Timeout was reached: [api.alternative.me] Failed to connect to api.alternative.me port
  443 after 10001 ms: Timeout was reached
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex(from = as.Date("2024-01-01"), to = as.Date("2024-06-01"))
 2.   └─cryptoQuotes:::GET(...)
 3.     └─base::tryCatch(...)
 4.       └─base (local) tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 5.         └─base (local) tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 6.           └─value[[3L]](cond)
Run rlang::last_trace(drop = FALSE) to see 2 hidden frames.

sessionInfo see attached file.
sessionInfo_2024-10-25.txt

[serkor1]

Hi @kramarek,

Thank you for using {cryptoQuotes}. According to Down for everyone or just me?, the API is down for the moment. So it is not something that I can fix - and I am not aware of any news about it closing down anytime soon. I will keep monitoring the website and work on an alternative source if it has indeed permanently closed down.

Best,

@serkor1

---

For future reference you can use reprex directly as follows,

reprex::reprex(
  x = {
    rnorm(10)
  },
  session_info = TRUE
)

Which automatically copies relevant information to your clipboard, which you can paste directly into your issue. It provides the following output,

rnorm(10)
#>  [1] -1.73980051 -1.62149429 -0.20149430  1.01945864  0.02782968  1.16901470
#>  [7] -1.12517020 -1.25178042 -0.57944155  0.50322803

^{Created on 2024-10-25 with reprex v2.1.1}

Session info

sessioninfo::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  setting  value
#>  version  R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
#>  os       Zorin OS 17.2
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#>  ui       X11
#>  language en_US:en
#>  collate  en_US.UTF-8
#>  ctype    en_US.UTF-8
#>  tz       Europe/Copenhagen
#>  date     2024-10-25
#>  pandoc   2.9.2.1 @ /usr/bin/ (via rmarkdown)
#> 
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#>  rmarkdown     2.28    2024-08-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  sessioninfo   1.2.2   2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  withr         3.0.1   2024-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  xfun          0.47    2024-08-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
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#> 
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#>  [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
#>  [3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
#>  [4] /usr/lib/R/library
#> 
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

[serkor1]

Hi @kramarek,

The API is up and running again! Outage was longer than I expected, honestly. I will look into alternatives as a robustness measure. 💯

Best,

[kramarek]

Hi @serkor1,
Thank you, great work. I was pleased to see this morning (9 AM CET) during testing that the API is working again.
Best regards