Steam Market Down

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Hi all Why the market in steam is down I cant buy anything from there today was the same problem

[rawWwRrr]

Market seems to be fine to me. What is "the same problem" for you?

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I cant buy anything from market its going down?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by C++:

I cant buy anything from market its going down?

I just bought a CSGO case. What is happening when you try? Explain it with more words than "it doesn't work".

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This message is showed in steam "You've made too many requests recently. Please wait and try your request again later."

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by C++:

This message is showed in steam "You've made too many requests recently. Please wait and try your request again later."

It's an IP rate limit added back in early October 2022 for the Market and inventories...

Originally posted by wuddih:

this restriction is per IP, so any form of shared internet connection is very likely to trigger it faster.

of course, scripts/browser addons also contribute to exceeding the limit because they might do things you dont requests you dont necessarily notice.

f.e. Augmented Steam does 2-3 additional requests every time you click a marketable item

the restriction is not short, it might even be longer than 2 days.

solution: change IP if you wanna use it earlier.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3468361193658091414/#c3468361193658808176

Originally posted by wuddih:

1) disable all Steam-related browser addons/userscripts
2) turn off any shared connection (VPN/proxy/kick roommates off router/etc.)

and after doing that, do things a bit slower.
certain url nodes of Steam were severely rate limited for a few weeks, it is more relaxed now but depending on how they block, people/networks might still be affected by it.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/5294572213366934649/#c5294572213367646226

Originally posted by WhatZit:

At the end of October, Valve reduced the permissible request rate for inventory lookups (endpoints).

This broke all Steam Market browser addons that heavily interrogated your owned items, typically causing a "429 Too Many requests" IP ban after a mere half-dozen transactions. The ban can easily last 6 hours, and it auto-refreshes if you exceed the limit again during the ban.

According to findings on the ArchiSteamFarm github, extension developers will need to forcibly cap the number of matches returned to 2000 (via the "count" parameter), and introduce other delays so as to guarantee only 1 request every 4 seconds.

This is deliberate behavior on Valve's part. Until the addon devs update their code, you can't do a damn thing about it except change your IP and go back to using only the clunky, non-enhanced official Steam Client (which apparently isn't affected).

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/5294572213376009626/#c5294572213376491761

tl;dr... Change your IP.

You can also read starting here...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3768987250125333123/#c3768987250125687276