Calls to UserStore from Evernote API stopped working

[idv 6]

Since April 24 2020 something has changed in server side Evernote API handling: calls to UserStore (virtually any calls but in particular checkVersion and getUser) started to return with weird error: HTTP status code is 429 which corresponds to "Too many requests" but the error is "OK". This error has ruined two open source Evernote clients on Linux: NixNote2 and Quentier. Both use unofficial C++ implementation of Evernote API, QEverCloud, but it worked fine for several years and then stopped in a single day on which nothing has changed in the library or in the apps. Furthermore, the error also affects people who use official Evernote SDKs according to this stackoverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61404638/why-is-there-a-sudden-increase-in-ttransportexception.

There's some investigation on the issue here by NixNote2 maintainer: https://github.com/robert7/nixnote2/issues/151#issuecomment-621384522. In particular, it seems that calls to UserStore started to require some cookie in addition to authentication token and that cookie is set during OAuth procedure. I failed to find anything about this in the documentation. One other thing that I noticed is that www.evernote.com suffers from this problem but sandbox.evernote.com doesn't seem to.

I know this forum is user supported but I really hope that someone from Evernote backend team could comment on this issue. Is it a bug? Or is it an undocumented new feature? What should Evernote API users change in their apps to continue working with UserStore?

[Andrew Kravchuk 0]

Hoping this gets some attention from Evernote team. Because of this bug(?) I can't use Evernote on my primary Linux system.

[robert7 3]

I can confirm that all (or at least quite many) Nixnote2 users are affected. Sync stopped to work from day to day without any code change in thie client.. :(

[gazumped 12,066]

3 hours ago, idv said:

I really hope that someone from Evernote backend team could comment on this issue.

There's a Facebook community and a Twitter account @EvernoteHelps - you could try them for comment.  Company staff don't (usually) make a practice of responding to individual requests here - and given the amount of traffic,  may not even see this thread for a while...

[idv 6]

30 minutes ago, gazumped said:

There's a Facebook community and a Twitter account @EvernoteHelps - you could try them for comment.  Company staff don't (usually) make a practice of responding to individual requests here - and given the amount of traffic,  may not even see this thread for a while...

Thank you very much! Contacted @EvernoteHelps on Twitter, hope it would actually help.

[Nick L. 682]

@idv We're looking into this issue right now and I will update this thread when I have more information. Thanks for chiming in. 

[idv 6]

1 hour ago, Nick L. said:

@idv We're looking into this issue right now and I will update this thread when I have more information. Thanks for chiming in. 

Great, thank you very much!

[idv 6]

@Nick L. just in case: I managed to confirm that UserStore API calls start to work again if I set one of cookies set by Evernote servers during OAuth procedure: the name of the cookie in my case is web50017PreUserGuid. I guess "web" is prefix here, "50017" is some id specific to each user and/or something else and "PreUserGuid" is a suffix.