Discord.py: Blocked from using API

[NightZan999]

Summary

So I was just trying to run my bot and this is the error which I got for no fault of mine! This is also not the first time I am getting this error, I checked links but they didn't help the issue!!!

Reproduction Steps

I literally just ran the bot

Expected Results

I expected the bot to run but it didn't go that way.

Actual Results

Here:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bot.py", line 1991, in <module>
    client.run(BOT_TOKEN)
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 679, in run
    return future.result()
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 658, in runner
    await self.start(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 621, in start
    await self.login(*args, bot=bot)
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 472, in login
    await self.http.static_login(token.strip(), bot=bot)
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 288, in static_login
    data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me'))
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 209, in request
    raise HTTPException(r, data)
discord.errors.HTTPException: 429 Too Many Requests (error code: 0): You are being blocked from accessing our API temporarily due to exceeding our rate limits frequently. Please read our docs at https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limits to prevent this moving forward.
sys:1: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Command.__call__' was never awaited

Later

Please sort this issue out as I am not even abusing API, the most advanced thing I am doing is giveaways! And also I have an asyncio.sleep(10) for changing the bots streaming status. I have seen more advanced bots run!!!

I asked my friend about this and he told me to wait for 5 hours, please reduce the cooldown or stop this issue as it just happens randomly.

[Rapptz]

I don't know why you've been banned from the API but it's not really something I control. A cloudflare ban lasts an hour. Wait it out.

[NightZan999]

Thanks for the quick reply, so I just have to wait. Any tips for waiting or not doing API abuse next time as well.

[pikaninja]

Discord said this before,
automating the API in that way /is/ abuse. Automatically doing "X" every N is generally not a good idea. Where X could be posting a message, changing someone's nickname, renaming a role, changing a channel topic, etc...

Generally bots should only react to user actions...

Although, for very large N we generally don't care. But for small N, we do care. Think rainbow bots, etc....
So generally don't do API calls in quick loops and such and you should be fine.

[Rapptz]

You usually get this ban after passing 10,000 429s or 403s or 401s in 10 minutes.

[NightZan999]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, now I get it