SOLVED: Consistent Failures Fetching Metadata from TheMovieDB

[nxl4]

On the command line are you able to ping themoviedb.org?

Yeah, ping shows the host being responsive:

Code:

PING api.themoviedb.org (52.85.247.33) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from server-52-85-247-33.ord51.r.cloudfront.net (52.85.247.33): icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=54.5 ms
64 bytes from server-52-85-247-33.ord51.r.cloudfront.net (52.85.247.33): icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=56.0 ms
64 bytes from server-52-85-247-33.ord51.r.cloudfront.net (52.85.247.33): icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=57.2 ms

And, nmap shows port 443 being open for HTTPS service:

Code:

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-05-26 15:04 EDT
Nmap scan report for api.themoviedb.org (52.85.247.30)
Host is up (0.057s latency).
Other addresses for api.themoviedb.org (not scanned): 52.85.247.81 52.85.247.33 52.85.247.69 2600:9000:2211:7600:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:ea00:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:b200:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:f600:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:9e00:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:3200:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:ac00:c:174a:c400:93a1 2600:9000:2211:9a00:c:174a:c400:93a1
rDNS record for 52.85.247.30: server-52-85-247-30.ord51.r.cloudfront.net
Not shown: 997 filtered ports
PORT    STATE  SERVICE
53/tcp  closed domain
80/tcp  open  http
443/tcp open  https

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.37 seconds

It's pretty strange, especially if other users aren't seeing the same kind of error.