Widget error

Hi there,

First of all I LOVE your widget, it has finally put the touchbar to good use haha!

I set it up a few days ago and it was working nicely but yesterday it dropped out and returned an error, then was working again hours later, today the same thing however it never came back to life. Here’s what it says:

**Traceback (most recent call last)
File "<string>", line 25, in <module>**

If you have the time, mind taking a look at this?

Oh! Live update: it just came back while I was writing this up. Would you know what causes this?

Thanks a lot man, much appreciated!

[chrislennon]

Hey @awkwardsky sorry for not getting back to you sooner. With regards to the calls not adding up to 136 537, I suspect (but not 100% sure) that this number relates to all calls made to the API (likely from that IP address). For example, these could have been calls from other devices or calls made in previous month buckets.

With respect to the month’s max calls, yeah their public (IP based) rate limiting is quite restrictive these days. For example assuming 1 device, 1 crypto pair, running 24/7 for a month would result in.

50 000 max_calls / (30 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes) = ~1 call per minute

For routes ahead I can see the following:

1. Reducing the refresh rate, number of coins, and number of devices that are still calling whilst not being used

2. I see that CryptoCompare has a free tier on their private API, this seems to increase the monthly cap from 50k to 100k

   • If you wanted to use this after obtaining an API key you would need to add it into the URL inside the script that BTT uses to call the API. In essence you would be looking for this line and append &api_key={your_api_key} at the end of this inside each script as documented here

3. Significant structural changes to this application (this is more a note for myself) that would call all coins for each currency in a single data/pricemultifull call (as documented here) I’m not sure this would be possible, but would remove the multiplier by the number of crypto’s being used.

Hope this helps matters 😄

[awkwardsky]

Hey @chrislennon

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I reducing the refresh rate, to “Always run when widget becomes visible.” & “Execute script every 3600 seconds.”

My widget setting is not always visible, it’s visibility when i pressed the specific key. but I’m not sure the calls calculate in one day = my all pressed times * number of coin pairing widgets or the calls calculate in one day = (my all pressed times + 24 times) * number of coin pairing widgets which one it correct? or the other?

1. I see that CryptoCompare has a free tier on their private API, this seems to increase the monthly cap from 50k to 100k

   • If you wanted to use this after obtaining an API key you would need to add it into the URL inside the script that BTT uses to call the API. In essence you would be looking for this line and append &api_key={your_api_key} at the end of this inside each script as documented here

it’s working haha! Your “getting back” is fast enough for me, don’t worry about it. thank a lots.

        url = "https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/pricemultifull?fsyms={}&tsyms={}&api_key=10817XXX....".format(coin_ticker, fiat_ticker)

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this issue i have no idea how to refactor the script

Thank you for taking your valuable time.