Hello,
I’m trying to use your free API, bug I’m facing this error and I dont understand why :
You may only perform this action upto maximum 500 number of times within 86400 seconds
Error message is very clear, but I just made a couple of calls before getting this error.
I also tried with a new Free API Key, same error.
Do you have any suggestions please?
Thanks,
Florian
Strange, that should not be. How many free OCR API calls did you (roughly) make?
And just to rule out issues with your code: If you test the connection with Postman, do you get the same result?
You probably know it, but just in case: Postman is a free app, see Free OCR API
If you see the problem even with Postman, a screenshot of the result could be helpful.
I probably tried 20-30 calls on my first api key.
On the second one, I got this error at first call.
I also tried with postman yes, same result
Postman result headers :
For more informations, here is my full request/response log, from my nodeJS server :
Error: Request failed with status code 403
at createError (C:\Users\...\node_modules\axios\lib\core\createError.js:16:15)
at settle (C:\Users\...\node_modules\axios\lib\core\settle.js:17:12)
at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (C:\Users\...node_modules\axios\lib\adapters\http.js:244:11)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)
at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:486:12)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1327:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
config:
url: 'https://api.ocr.space/parse/image',
method: 'post',
data: '{"url":"...","apikey":"...","language":"fre","filetype":"GIF","scale":true}',
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8',
'User-Agent': 'axios/0.21.0',
'Content-Length': 167
},
transformRequest: [ [Function: transformRequest] ],
transformResponse: [ [Function: transformResponse] ],
timeout: 0,
adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
maxContentLength: -1,
maxBodyLength: -1,
validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
apikey: '...'
},
request: <ref *1> ClientRequest {
_events: [Object: null prototype] {
socket: [Function (anonymous)],
abort: [Function (anonymous)],
aborted: [Function (anonymous)],
connect: [Function (anonymous)],
error: [Function (anonymous)],
timeout: [Function (anonymous)],
prefinish: [Function: requestOnPrefinish]
},
_eventsCount: 7,
_maxListeners: undefined,
outputData: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
destroyed: false,
_last: true,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: false,
_defaultKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: false,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket: TLSSocket {
_tlsOptions: [Object],
_secureEstablished: true,
_securePending: false,
_newSessionPending: false,
_controlReleased: true,
secureConnecting: false,
_SNICallback: null,
servername: 'api.ocr.space',
alpnProtocol: false,
authorized: true,
authorizationError: null,
encrypted: true,
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 10,
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_parent: null,
_host: 'api.ocr.space',
_readableState: [ReadableState],
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: [WritableState],
allowHalfOpen: false,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: undefined,
_server: null,
ssl: [TLSWrap],
_requestCert: true,
_rejectUnauthorized: true,
parser: null,
_httpMessage: [Circular *1],
[Symbol(res)]: [TLSWrap],
[Symbol(verified)]: true,
[Symbol(pendingSession)]: null,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 11,
[Symbol(kHandle)]: [TLSWrap],
[Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: false,
[Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
[Symbol(timeout)]: null,
[Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
[Symbol(connect-options)]: [Object],
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
},
_header: 'POST /parse/image HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*\r\n' +
'Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8\r\n' +
'User-Agent: axios/0.21.0\r\n' +
'Content-Length: 167\r\n' +
'Host: api.ocr.space\r\n' +
'Connection: close\r\n' +
'\r\n',
_keepAliveTimeout: 0,
_onPendingData: [Function: noopPendingOutput],
agent: Agent {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
defaultPort: 443,
protocol: 'https:',
options: [Object],
requests: {},
sockets: [Object],
freeSockets: {},
keepAliveMsecs: 1000,
keepAlive: false,
maxSockets: Infinity,
maxFreeSockets: 256,
scheduling: 'fifo',
maxTotalSockets: Infinity,
totalSocketCount: 1,
maxCachedSessions: 100,
_sessionCache: [Object],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
socketPath: undefined,
method: 'POST',
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
path: '/parse/image',
_ended: true,
res: IncomingMessage {
_readableState: [ReadableState],
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 3,
_maxListeners: undefined,
socket: [TLSSocket],
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: true,
headers: [Object],
rawHeaders: [Array],
trailers: {},
rawTrailers: [],
aborted: false,
upgrade: false,
url: '',
method: null,
statusCode: 403,
statusMessage: 'Forbidden',
client: [TLSSocket],
_consuming: false,
_dumped: false,
req: [Circular *1],
responseUrl: 'https://api.ocr.space/parse/image',
redirects: [],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
},
aborted: false,
timeoutCb: null,
upgradeOrConnect: false,
parser: null,
maxHeadersCount: null,
reusedSocket: false,
host: 'api.ocr.space',
protocol: 'https:',
_redirectable: Writable {
_writableState: [WritableState],
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_options: [Object],
_ended: true,
_ending: true,
_redirectCount: 0,
_redirects: [],
_requestBodyLength: 167,
_requestBodyBuffers: [],
_onNativeResponse: [Function (anonymous)],
_currentRequest: [Circular *1],
_currentUrl: 'https://api.ocr.space/parse/image',
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
[Symbol(corked)]: 0,
[Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype] {
accept: [Array],
'content-type': [Array],
'user-agent': [Array],
'content-length': [Array],
host: [Array]
}
},
response: {
status: 403,
statusText: 'Forbidden',
headers: {
'cache-control': 'no-cache',
pragma: 'no-cache',
'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
expires: '-1',
server: 'Microsoft-IIS/10.0',
'x-aspnet-version': '4.0.30319',
'x-powered-by': 'ASP.NET',
date: 'Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:26:27 GMT',
connection: 'close',
'content-length': '88'
},
config: {
url: 'https://api.ocr.space/parse/image',
method: 'post',
data: '{"url":"....","apikey":"....","language":"fre","filetype":"GIF","scale":true}',
headers: [Object],
transformRequest: [Array],
transformResponse: [Array],
timeout: 0,
adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
maxContentLength: -1,
maxBodyLength: -1,
validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
apikey: '...'
},
request: <ref *1> ClientRequest {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 7,
_maxListeners: undefined,
outputData: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
destroyed: false,
_last: true,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: false,
_defaultKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: false,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket: [TLSSocket],
_header: 'POST /parse/image HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*\r\n' +
'Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8\r\n' +
'User-Agent: axios/0.21.0\r\n' +
'Content-Length: 167\r\n' +
'Host: api.ocr.space\r\n' +
'Connection: close\r\n' +
'\r\n',
_keepAliveTimeout: 0,
_onPendingData: [Function: noopPendingOutput],
agent: [Agent],
socketPath: undefined,
method: 'POST',
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
path: '/parse/image',
_ended: true,
res: [IncomingMessage],
aborted: false,
timeoutCb: null,
upgradeOrConnect: false,
parser: null,
maxHeadersCount: null,
reusedSocket: false,
host: 'api.ocr.space',
protocol: 'https:',
_redirectable: [Writable],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
[Symbol(corked)]: 0,
[Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype]
},
data: 'You may only perform this action upto maximum 500 number of times within 86400 seconds'
},
isAxiosError: true,
toJSON: [Function: toJSON]
}It’s strange, but when I try on my VPS, with a cURL request, I didn’t get this error, but a “timed out” error returned by the API.
{“ParsedResults”:[],“OCRExitCode”:6,“IsErroredOnProcessing”:true,“ErrorMessage”:[“Timed out waiting for results”],“ProcessingTimeInMilliseconds”:“33734”}