Timeout on older charts

[critmcdonald]

This error indicates it is more a problem from Billboard, but in a loop pulling charts I get significantly more timeouts on older charts, starting seriously around 2010. These aren't rate-limiting issues as I've mitigated those with time intervals and the error is different ... it seems like Billboard won't respond quickly enough. Sometimes it will grab two or three charts and then die. I can use the same code to pull recent charts with no problem, but once I try for an older year, it times out again.

Here is an example

Not sure your module can do anything about this ... more wondering if other folks have seen this.

[guoguo12]

I've experienced this! One of the unit tests was flaky until I changed it to use a newer date (d1f26b9).

Curious to see if anyone finds a workaround.

[0xAether]

I'm experiencing this too. Below is a command I'm running to scrape country music charts from the 1990's. It seems like Billboard is returning a 503 seemingly often. I've notice this when I browse out to Billboard chart pages in Chrome. Although it seems to happen much more often when using commands like the one below.

billboard.ChartData('country-songs', date=chartDate, fetch=True, timeout=None, max_retries=20)