moon phase api not reachable

[ironmann250]

i currently reside in china and it seems i can't connect to the us navy api, i used a vpn to bypass the censorship but still it fails, below is a traceback of the error that occured

HTTPConnectionPool(host='api.usno.navy.mil', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /moon/phase?date=10%2F27%2F2019&nump=8 (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0xabdf99cc>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))

[jessamynsmith]

I see the same problem. I suspect the API was using is no longer available. As I no longer have personal need of this application, I haven't been doing much work on it. It is unlikely I will find and implement a new moon phase solution.