API servers down

[crew]

My API key appeared to have used up its 1000 queries. This has never happened before and I don't use the keyword tracker. Any time it is used, I initiate the request, but my page that retrieves info for my sites returns 0 pages for all of them. So, I assume it is used up.

So I went to google's page and signed (my friend) up for a new account/API key. After confirming the account, I got a message from Google that their servers were unavailable. I'm wondering if both of these are related.

Is anyone else having API problems?

If the API is down for a good period of time, that can start to mess up validation on the Coop.

[Infiniterb]

Well, I certainly don't have any weight in the co-op now after doing manual validation. If the API servers being down could cause this, then I'm somewhat relieved.

[digitalpoint]

I haven't heard of anything being down. I checked keywords in the keyword tracker just now via the API and it seems fine.

[crew]

Must be my key then, but I don't see anyway that I used 1,000 queries.

(and I still can't create a new account with Google to get another key...

"Our servers are temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
We apologize for the inconvenience.")

[NoX]

i have the same problem, cant create a new key (i just put my site up about a week or 2 ago)

i started the coop during this time and i have a weight of 7, maybe this is the reason?

also, not sure if this is related but the only search engine that has my site indexed is yahoo with 330 pages aprox. google has 0 its showing :S

maybe its not related, but anyway, api key reg is not working. lol

[crew]

The API seemed to have changed how it handles 'site:' queries. I'm not sure how Shawn adjusted the Coop, but I add 'inurl:mysite.com' to my site: query and it seems to work the way it used to.

Not sure why Google wouldn't want people doing straight 'site:' queries.

[Infiniterb]

Can you give a specific example with data so Shawn can be made aware of it?

[Arnie]

I asked Google and got this reply about Api.

Thank you for your note. We appreciate your interest in the Google Web
APIs. Since this is a beta service, we can't guarantee we will respond to
every message, but we've included answers to some of our most frequent
questions below. Please scroll all the way down to see if your question is
answered. You may also want to look for answers on our FAQ at
http://www.google.com/apis/api_faq.html

IF YOU SAW A SERVER ERROR:

Occasionally, the Google Web APIs servers are taken down temporarily for
maintenance purposes. If you see a server error, please wait a few hours
and try your query or your license key request again.


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If you didn't receive your license key, it's likely that the email
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If you can't find your key, you can have it re-sent. Please note that your
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Here' at the very bottom of the page. Enter your email address and
password, and Google will re-send your key.

If you still do not receive your key, a network or other filter may be
deleting it before it ever reaches your inbox. You may want to contact
your system administrator. You are also welcome to create a new Google
Account and license key using a different email address.


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[Arnie]

When you use Api key remember 1000 querries a day
But if you use 10 times the same query a day you'll have to wait also until next day.

[TearingHairOut]

Various webmaster tools that use Google's API show zero results for queries (e.g. McDar, SEOmoz). Manual cross checks show that results are inaccurate.

It's probable that API servers are disabled in some way at the moment.

[Arnie]

Looks like api is working again. Even got some weight back, but only a quarter from that I had before. Guess it takes another day to work fully again.

[leo]

Can you give a specific example with data so Shawn can be made aware of it?

Don't know whether this is related: Since yesterday about 2/3 of my roughly 60 keywords give the result N/A (though most of them ranked <10 before) and most other KWs have very bad ranking now - only a few exceptions have irregularly and completely unexpectedly improved.

On the other hand, my two most important KWs still rank unvariably well when typed into G!

I am totaly confused.

Regrards

[Arnie]

API server down? My API key doesn't work at the moment. Someone else?