genesis_block_generator hitting blockchain.info request quotas about pyethsaletool

[wil611]

i have the same issue.

Processed transactions: 200
Processed transactions: 250
Processed transactions: 300
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "genesis_block_generator.py", line 137, in
print json.dumps(evaluate(), indent=4)
File "genesis_block_generator.py", line 129, in evaluate
th = get_txs_and_heights(outs)
File "genesis_block_generator.py", line 69, in get_txs_and_heights
txs[h] = fetchtx(h)
File "genesis_block_generator.py", line 50, in new_method
c[str(arg)] = method(arg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bitcoin/bci.py", line 341, in fetchtx
return f(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bitcoin/bci.py", line 268, in bci_fetchtx
data = make_request('https://blockchain.info/rawtx/'+txhash+'?format=hex')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bitcoin/bci.py", line 23, in make_request
raise Exception(p)
Exception: Quota Exceeded (Req Count Limit)

[carryforward]

I saw this too. It has caching, so after it times out and is restarted, the script skips over what it previously downloaded. It will probably take over a dozen restarts to finish the script.

[vbuterin]

The newest script is in a different repo, and has a number of new safeguards to mitigate this including batch queries to reduce the total number of queries by ~20x. But do expect that it might happen and you may have to run the script a few times to get the full genesis block if you're building it at the same time everyone else is.