ETIMEDOUT error on wikidata api call using request promise

Question

Below is the snippet of nodejs to call wikidata api using request-promise module

var rp = require('request-promise');

var wikidataURL="http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&props=labels|claims&languages=en&format=json&ids=Q1"

    let promise=rp(wikidataURL).catch(function(e){
      console.log(e);
    });

For me, it worked normally till 27/1/2020. After that I get a ETIMEDOUT connection error. The same links would work on browser but not on nodejs. There is no proxy involved.

Error message:

   { Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 91.198.174.192:80
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
    at _exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1044:20)
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1198:14)
     code: 'ETIMEDOUT',
     errno: 'ETIMEDOUT',
     syscall: 'connect',
     address: '91.198.174.192',
     port: 80 },

Is this something on my side or wikidata server?

Answer 1

So it seems only https is allowed now for wikidata api query after some update from their side