# Server Errors on Friday

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883>\
**Category:** Tournament\
**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883 "2022-11-25T13:34:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![liborty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@liborty](https://forum.numer.ai/u/liborty)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/1 "2022-11-25T13:34:12Z")

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I am getting nothing but server errors today (Friday), when trying to download data with ‘numerapi’.

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**Author:** ![gammarat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/gammarat/32/3281_2.png) [@gammarat](https://forum.numer.ai/u/gammarat)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/2 "2022-11-26T01:31:01Z")

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The competitions opened about half an hour late. That happens once in a while. If that was your problem, just put a loop in your script to check if the round is open, if not, wait 5 or 10 minutes and try again.

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**Author:** ![liborty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@liborty](https://forum.numer.ai/u/liborty)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/3 "2022-11-26T09:41:47Z")

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I have that already but after half an hour of failed attempts I thought the problem was perhaps in my script, so I turned the check off. My fault, I guess.

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**Author:** ![gammarat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/gammarat/32/3281_2.png) [@gammarat](https://forum.numer.ai/u/gammarat)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/4 "2022-11-26T10:51:30Z")

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Other things to check when there’s a problem like this:

- The Tournament or Signals web page. If there’s no submission panel showing, then it usually means there’s a problem on the Numerai end.
- The [support channel on the Chat](https://rocketchat.numer.ai/channel/support). Numerai generally puts up notices there about what’s wrong and how long before it’ll be working again pretty quickly after a failure. See @pshork’s comment there at 13:08 UTC.

On the bright side, they do say the round will always be open for a full hour, regardless of when it starts.

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**Author:** ![svendaj](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/svendaj/32/3285_2.png) [@svendaj](https://forum.numer.ai/u/svendaj)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/5 "2022-11-26T12:12:38Z")

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Piece of code I have added to my script on Friday (while waiting for round openning):

```auto
from numerapi import NumerAPI
from time import sleep
from datetime import datetime

napi = NumerAPI(public_id="your_public_id", secret_key="your_secret_key")

# wait until current round is open and get current_round number
current_round = 0
while current_round == 0:
    print("Waiting for openning of current round at", datetime.now())
    try:
        if napi.check_round_open():
            current_round = napi.get_current_round() 
        else:
            sleep(60)
        
    except:
        sleep(60)

```

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**Author:** ![liborty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@liborty](https://forum.numer.ai/u/liborty)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/server-errors-on-friday/5883/6 "2022-11-28T02:03:56Z")

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As I do not use Python, I have a Bash script:

```auto
#!/bin/bash
# Sets up cron checks for new numerai rounds TUE-FRI, from 13:05 UTC.
# Local timezone is taken care of, as long as it is not sub-hourly.
# Activate only once, verify with crontab -l, deactivate with crontab -r
# Make sure that your computer and internet connection are on at the target time

# days of the week to be checking for new tournaments - no spaces!
FIRSTDAY=Tue
LASTDAY=Sat
# hours in UTC to be checking from
HRS=13
# at MINS minutes intervals after the initial attempt at $HRS:01
MINS=5
# name of bash script here that downloads live data, generates predictions and uploads them
PREDICT=numbatch
# full path/name of fully installed numerapi CLI (python) script
NAPI=/home/l/.local/bin/numerapi
# name of log file here 
LOG=cronlog

############ no need to change anything below ###################

# physical path/name of this script
SCRIPT=$(realpath $0)
# PREDICT script must be in the same directory as this script: $PD
PD=$(dirname $SCRIPT)
# crontab expects by default local time, so convert from UTC
LHRS=`date -d "$HRS UTC" +%H`
DAYS=`date -d "$HRS next $FIRSTDAY UTC" +%w`-`date -d "$HRS next $LASTDAY UTC" +%w`

# no argument given means first time manual startup to initiate crontab
# thereafter this script is invoked by cron with dummy argument 'r' to do actual processing
[$1] || {
    printf "1 $LHRS * * $DAYS $SCRIPT r >> $PD/$LOG\n" | crontab - && { 
        printf "$0: `date` crontab initiated:\n`crontab -l`\n" | tee -a $PD/$LOG
        exit 0
    } || {
        printf "$0: `date` crontab initiation failed!\n" | tee -a $PD/$LOG
        exit 2
    }
}

# Invoked by cron at the specified time 13:01 UTC
while [`"$NAPI" check-new-round --hours 1` != '1']; do 
    printf "$0: `date -u`: tournament has not yet started\n" 
    sleep "$MINS"m #sleep till tournament opens
done
# new tournament has started within the last hour, so download, predict, upload 
printf "$0: `date -u`: new tournament has started!\n" 
printf "$0: running $PD/$PREDICT\n" 
$PD/$PREDICT >> $PD/$LOG 
printf "$0: All done for today!\n" 
exit 0

```