Why would a specific Woocommerce REST endpoint return a 503 error only when called through the new API and asking for more than 20 items?

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(TLDR: Only ONE endpoint fails, it only fails when called through the new API AND asking for +X number of items)

This Woocommerce store (not owned by me) works fine when I make a GET request for 100 items (the maximum allowed) to the "orders" and "customers" endpoints, but will return a 503 error when the "products" one is called.

I'm using the latest API, so the call as a URL format would look like: https://website.com/wp-json/wc/v3/products?per_page=20 (Btw yesterday it was working ok when asked for 20 items - today the max I can ask for before getting a 503 is 18 items)

The odd thing is that I can ask for 300 items if I call the "old" API like this: https://website.com/wc-api/v3/products?limit=300

What could the reason for this be?

This may be unrelated but I'm having a similar issue on Opencart and I've seen that this error has an underlying Apache error that is due to a server timeout. Perhaps you could increase your timeout value and try the request again? — Daniel

logicappsource logicappsource · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-21T18:18:16

It might a security feature, try to crawl with a header set as "google" and apply setInterval(). Try to iterate not as aloop to go undetected

Why would a specific Woocommerce REST endpoint return a 503 error only when called through the new API and asking for more than 20 items?

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