source_unavailable
No source can answer this read right now, or it is switched off while we fix it. Never charged.
Status
HTTP 503, title Source unavailable. One of the upstream and ours errors. Branch on code, never on the status or the prose.
Common causes
- Every source for this read is down.
- The source is switched off as degraded.
What to do
No source can answer this read right now, or it is switched off while we fix it. Nothing was charged; retry later rather than treating it as an empty result.
Example
The body arrives as application/problem+json. Most responses add detail about the occurrence, and some add fields of their own.
{
"type": "https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/errors/source_unavailable",
"title": "Source unavailable",
"status": 503,
"code": "source_unavailable"
}