#🔒 Running into some difficulties w. GitHub Actions & WikiData API

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potent pilot
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I'll preface this by saying that I'm learning to develop/code through online tutorials. I am certain I'm not always using the right words, so please bear with me.

I have a script that uses wikidata API to enrich a staging table in a PostgressDB on Supabase. When I run the script locally, it works just fine. When I run it using github actions - it kicks back either a HTTP 400 or HTTP 429, which surprises me because I have secrets setup on GitHub for my Wiki token.

All this is to say, since I don't understand exactly what's failing, i don't know what to specifically ask but I would be most appreciative if someone could point me in the right direction or tell me if this is a simple fix or what. Attached is my script.

Here's a sample from the log file that's created when I run the script. It's roughly 21000 lines of failures and all of them are either 400 or 429.

the script: #1378867091754451125 message

2025-06-01 14:24:33,236 | ERROR | Wikidata request failed for Q4909858: HTTP 400 | URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q4909858.json
2025-06-01 14:24:33,882 | ERROR | Wikidata request failed for Q4908749: HTTP 400 | URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q4908749.json
2025-06-01 14:24:34,403 | ERROR | Wikidata request failed for Q2939390: HTTP 429 | URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2939390.json
2025-06-01 14:24:34,924 | ERROR | Wikidata request failed for Q4913241: HTTP 429 | URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q4913241.json```
vast flumeBOT
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potent pilot
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potent pilot
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and a time out of 10

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potent pilot
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What response body are you getting with the 400 error?

potent pilot
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that's what I'm hoping. In non technical terms - i use various pvalues to update fields in my database table.

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by response body - i think you're talking about printing the details of those 400 error? I'm not doing anything more than logging the information from the sample.

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or rather - consistent with the sample.

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potent pilot
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gotcha. I'll run it again with a more robust log.

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i'll @ you when it's finished and i'll paste that up here.

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what other things should i be logging for you to be able to understand the problem better?

naive flare
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all the request bodies when the response isn't 200, probably

potent pilot
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gotcha.

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potent pilot
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yeah i don't think it is but again, my understanding is very limited - when i run it locally it worked fine.

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one thing that i don't understand though - is that i was doing a "GET" request

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and in my reading i thought that meant that there werent headers involved.

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potent pilot
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cool. so yeah something like "logging.error(f"Headers Sent: {headers}")" should work then i would think.

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i'll definitely bookmark that - thanks kindly. i'll go run the script with a more robust log and comeback in a bit

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