Intermittent issue with Geocoder.search API

Question

Intermittent issue with Geocoder.search API

sgmamsys opened this issue 6 months ago · 1 comments

sgmamsys commented 6 months ago

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Expected behavior

I am taking a random IP address
Geocoder.search("103.164.199.142")[0].data["timezone"] = "Asia/Kolkata"

Actual behavior

Geocoder.search("103.164.199.142")[0].data["timezone"] = Geocoding API's response was not valid JSON

Steps to reproduce

This issue is occuring randomly since yesterday.

Environment info

Geocoder version: 1.6.7
Rails version:
Database (if applicable):
Lookup (if applicable):

Answer 1 · 2023-12-17T14:45:56.000Z

There seems to be an intermittent issue with the Ipinfo.io service. You might want to try using a different IP lookup. If problems with Ipinfo.io get worse, we could consider changing the default IP address lookup, but I'm not ready to do that yet.