CAPTCHA error

[fw42]

I'm using this library to download an up-to-date version of the ProtonVPN server list.

Basically like this:

from proton.session.api import Session
session = Session()
session.authenticate(username, password)
data = session.api_request('/api/vpn/logicals')
...

This has worked fine for months, but about a week or so ago we started getting the following error:

proton.session.exceptions.ProtonAPIError: [HTTP/422, 9001] For security reasons, please complete CAPTCHA.

I've tried with 0.4.0 (which we have been using this whole time) as well as 0.7.0 (the most recent version).

Please advice how to proceed here. Thanks!

@XavierProton @luke-titley-proton

[luke-titley-proton]

Hey, the most probable reason is that you're querying the API in a way that triggers some anti abuse pattern. Perhaps too often in a short space of time? Maybe look at the linux client and check the delay times in there, maybe it can help?Unfortunately we don't really provide official support for using the python apis directly. They're published in the interest of transparency mostly.

[fw42]

I'm running this code once a day (from a GitHub actions worker). Does that constitute "abuse"? Are there rate limits I should be aware of? Been doing so for a few months but only now it started failing.

[luke-titley-proton]

hmm, logicals is a pretty heavy call, but once a day is fairly reasonable. Could be that the request is from a github machine ? What happens if you run your script locally (rather than through github) ?