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Max Rate Limit Reached error thrown by Etherscan

See original GitHub issue

After upgrading to v5 ether balance checks and json rpc calls end up with the following error (This was not shown in v4) :

Rate limit reached for this call:

https://api.etherscan.io/api?module=proxy&action=eth_blockNumber&apikey=9D13ZE7XSBTJ94N9BNJ2MA33VMAY2YPIRB

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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ricmoocommented, Jul 19, 2020

I’ve added retry logic (with exponential back-off) to the Etherscan provider in v5.0.6, so I suspect this should be addressed? Please try it out and let me know.

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ricmoocommented, Jul 3, 2020

I’ve noticed this starting today as well. It looks like Etherscan may have dialed up their throttling for the ethers default API key.

I’ll get in touch with them and look into this. It may need to be removed from the default provider for now.

Thanks!

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