Failed to create ticker: Too Many Requests. Rate limited.

[ttrueten]

Hi there,
tried to run on a Raspberry PI 2W, Waveshare 2.13" V4 Display with newest Image: Nothing happens on Display. The error.log shows:

08:05:34 - tinyticker - INFO: Tinyticker version: 1.1.8
08:05:34 - tinyticker - INFO: PID file: /tmp/tinyticker/tinyticker_pid
08:05:34 - tinyticker - INFO: PID: 664
08:05:34 - tinyticker - DEBUG: Args: Namespace(config=PosixPath('/home/tinyticker/.config/tinyticker/config.json'), verbose=2)
08:05:34 - tinyticker - INFO: Starting ticker task.
08:05:34 - tinyticker.display - INFO: Init ePaper display.
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy release
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy release
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy release
08:05:34 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy
08:05:36 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.epd2in13_V4 - DEBUG: e-Paper busy release
08:05:40 - tinyticker.sequence - ERROR: Failed to create ticker: Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/bin/tinyticker", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/main.py", line 147, in main
asyncio.run(run())
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/runners.py", line 190, in run
return runner.run(main)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/runners.py", line 118, in run
return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/base_events.py", line 653, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/main.py", line 140, in run
await tick_task
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/main.py", line 66, in start_ticker
sequence = Sequence.from_tinyticker_config(tt_config)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/sequence.py", line 35, in from_tinyticker_config
return Sequence(
^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/sequence.py", line 56, in init
raise ValueError("No tickers provided.")
ValueError: No tickers provided.
08:05:40 - tinyticker - INFO: Exiting.
08:05:41 - tinyticker.waveshare_lib.device - DEBUG: spi end

Any hints?

Regards,
T.

[loiccoyle]

Is for this a crypto asset or a stock?

[ttrueten]

I wanted to use it to display the BTC prices, but after I started the image on the pi2w and set it up via the web interface, nothing appears on the display (Waveshare 2.13“ V4 or 2.7”). So I looked in the log file and saw the error message quoted above.

Regards,
T.

[loiccoyle]

can you share your config? be sure to hide your api key

[ttrueten]

Please excuse my late reply, I'm currently swamped with work. Here is the configuration for the pi2w with a 2.13" eInk V4 display:

{
"tickers": [
{
"symbol_type": "stock",
"symbol": "SPY",
"interval": "1d",
"lookback": null,
"wait_time": 600,
"plot_type": "candle",
"mav": null,
"volume": false,
"avg_buy_price": null,
"prepost": false,
"layout": {
"name": "default",
"y_axis": false,
"x_gaps": true,
"show_logo": true
}
}
],
"sequence": {
"skip_outdated": true,
"skip_empty": true
},
"epd_model": "EPD_v4",
"api_key": "**********",
"flip": false
}

Does tinyticker require any additional software/drivers or anything else?

Regards,
T.

[loiccoyle]

hm yeah there is nothing obviously wrong, unfortunately I don't have access to my device, so I can't really help easily.

If you try with a crypto ticker, do you get the same behaviour?

[loiccoyle]

Does tinyticker require any additional software/drivers or anything else?

No it should be relatively plug and play as long as you use the provided sidk image.

[citobori]

Hi Loïc, thanks for the great project! It's working great for displaying crypto. I'm getting the same error as ttrueten does in tinyticker-err.log if I add any stock:

tinyticker.sequence - ERROR: Failed to create ticker: Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.

This is both with the default config or with adding my own stock symbol. Do you know if yfinance has changed their terms or API details?

[citobori]

Hi Loïc, thanks for the great project! It's working great for displaying crypto. I'm getting the same error as ttrueten does in tinyticker-err.log if I add any stock:

tinyticker.sequence - ERROR: Failed to create ticker: Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.

This is both with the default config or with adding my own stock symbol. Do you know if yfinance has changed their terms or API details?

It looks like there have been some issues opened on yfinance github a few months ago, and updates to the package since then so maybe just an update of yfinance is needed?

[citobori]

Hi @loiccoyle ,
As an experiment, I tried updating the yfinance package. From the SSH command line I used:

pip install yfinance --upgrade --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages

With the result:

Installing collected packages: websockets, pycparser, protobuf, certifi, cffi, curl_cffi, yfinance
  Attempting uninstall: yfinance
    Found existing installation: yfinance 0.2.55
    Uninstalling yfinance-0.2.55:
      Successfully uninstalled yfinance-0.2.55
Successfully installed certifi-2025.10.5 cffi-2.0.0 curl_cffi-0.13.0 protobuf-6.33.0 pycparser-2.23 websockets-15.0.1 yfinance-0.2.66

After a reboot I can still SSH into the pi but the web interface does not come up. This is the contents of tinyticker-err.log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/bin/tinyticker", line 5, in <module>
    from tinyticker.__main__ import main
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .display import Display
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/display.py", line 15, in <module>
    from .layouts import LAYOUTS
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/layouts/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .big_price import big_price
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/layouts/big_price.py", line 5, in <module>
    from ..tickers._base import TickerBase, TickerResponse
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/tickers/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .stock import TickerStock
  File "/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tinyticker/tickers/stock.py", line 8, in <module>
    from yfinance.scrapers.quote import requests
ImportError: cannot import name 'requests' from 'yfinance.scrapers.quote' (/home/tinyticker/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yfinance/scrapers/quote.py)

Do you have any suggestions for getting stock quotes working again? Crypto has been working fine with the current image file, but no stocks. Thanks!

[citobori]

Because the update of yfinance mentioned above stopped things from working I wrote the 1.1.8 image file to the SD card again. After fitting the card to the Pi Zero, setting up the wifi and leaving it to reboot and configure itself the graph for SPY eventually appeared on the e-ink screen! I could then change the stock tickers through the web interface and add my crypto API key. Perhaps it has worked because the USA markets were open at the time of initial setup and config of the SD card? When I first set up it was at the weekend.

[loiccoyle]

Hi sorry for being unresponsive, I haven't had any time to look into this. I'm glad you got it working in the end. I no longer have access to a tinyticker to develop this project. If I update the dependencies would you be willing to test it for me?

[citobori]

Hi sorry for being unresponsive, I haven't had any time to look into this. I'm glad you got it working in the end. I no longer have access to a tinyticker to develop this project. If I update the dependencies would you be willing to test it for me?

No problem! Thank you for creating the project for everyone.
Yes I can try out a new version with updated dependencies for you 👍

[citobori]

I have found that if the Pi boots up when the stock market is closed then this appears in the log:
ERROR: Failed to create ticker: Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.
Then even after the markets are open the stock chart does not display (just the crypto one)
If I click the blue RESTART button on the web interface to restart the services after the markets have opened I still get the error.
If I power-cycle the Pi after the market is open then it will fetch the stock prices and display the chart.