error `SSL_connect` when making an API call

[bienflorencia]

Hi, I'm running a call to the API to detect new species recorded on the platform (similar to what I do here).
I have included a sleep argument to pause the call for 10 seconds every 10 queries. However, I'm getting the following error:

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.inaturalist.org:443

Any ideas on how to get past this issue?
Thanks!

[HannesOberreiter]

I don't think this is directly related to the API.

You may want to checkout this StackOverflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48987512/ssl-connect-ssl-error-syscall-in-connection-to-github-com443

The first which talks about IPv6, which could be your issue as the api does not have an IPv6 record or the one talking about installing CURL with openSSL and not LibreSSL as you are currently running curl with libreSSL.

PS: checked your code from the link, you may want to add an user-agent as mentioned in the official docs: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+recommended+practices

Cheers
Hannes