Error: Invalid Slack response

[benoitc]

I got the following error recently on slackin after days without any problem:

$ /usr/local/bin/slackin --interval 5000 --port 10000 domain xxxx
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:52 GMT+0200 (CEST) – fetching
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:52 GMT+0200 (CEST) – listening on *:10000
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:53 GMT+0200 (CEST) – ready
WARN: no logo configured
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:53 GMT+0200 (CEST) – online 6, total 29
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:58 GMT+0200 (CEST) – fetching
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:59 GMT+0200 (CEST) – Error: Invalid Slack response: 429
at SlackData.onres (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node/slack.js:77:22)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node/slack.js:41:17
at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:746:30)
at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:135:10)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:169:7)
at IncomingMessage. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:938:12)
at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:893:12)
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:10:59 GMT+0200 (CEST) – retrying
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:11:09 GMT+0200 (CEST) – fetching
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:11:09 GMT+0200 (CEST) – Error: Invalid Slack response: 429
at SlackData.onres (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node/slack.js:77:22)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node/slack.js:41:17
at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:746:30)
at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:135:10)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:169:7)
at IncomingMessage. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:938:12)
at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:893:12)
Thu Oct 08 2015 20:11:09 GMT+0200 (CEST) – retrying

[phazonoverload]

I'm also getting this issue, seems to be a rate limit thing. Any way to fix this?

[benoitc]

I increased the timeout to 5mn and it did the trick. Maybe it should be the default?

[limulus]

Is this with the latest version of slackin? In v0.6.0, there is a patch from a Slack employee that reduces the load on their servers. It may be that Slack has understandably started rate limiting the older, more resource-intensive way of doing things.

[benoitc]

@limulus hrm it is the latest version in npm 5 days ago yes

[limulus]

Looks like the version on npm is not v0.6.0, per #114.

[purplelightsaber]

@benoitc I am getting the same error (Error: Invalid Slack response: 429...) how did you set the timeout to 5mn?

[Xyene]

I have the same question as @purplelightsaber — slackin has recently (last two weeks) started getting 429s from Slack. Is there an easy fix for this that we could use on our ends? It's been preventing a number of people from signing up, so it'd be nice if there was a solution or workaround available.

[vgrbr]

@purplelightsaber @Xyene did you tried to increase "interval" from slackin configuration? I had same issue but increasing interval to 10000 fixed problem.

[Xyene]

@vgrbr That was one of the things I tried — increasing the interval via -i to 30000, but that didn't resolve the issue. I'm primarily using the SVG badge, so my only idea is that perhaps slackin isn't caching the user count, and instead retrieving it every badge load.

[vgrbr]

Sorry that worked only for my local env... on now.sh I'm getting same error :(

[lvnilesh]

this pr #303 resolves #110