Getting a 404 error when calling on the API

[philstraforelli]

Hi,

Using code from the README as a quick reprex:

f1dataR::load_laps(season = 2021, round = 15)
#> ! Failure at Jolpica with https:// connection. Retrying as http://.
#> ✖ Error getting Jolpica data, http status code 404.
#> Not Found
#> NULL

[pbulsink]

Hi philstraforelli

Thanks for reporting.

I know I've had trouble with Jolpica connections when connected to a VPN or behind institutional (work/school) firewalls. Even if I can connect to https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/ in a browser, the connection in R won't work. Does this maybe apply to you as well?

Are you able to run something like load_session_data(season = 202, round = 15, session = "R") successfully?

[pbulsink]

I've also had 504 gateway timeouts ... both of these indicate some sort of instability at https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/, but I've yet to see anything in their GitHub issues (https://github.com/jolpica/jolpica-f1/). As I think this is an issue on their side as the data provider, not on ours as the interface, i'll close this issue (we can reopen if it appears that we have to somehow adapt to them).