Hi there! I'm trying to download RefSeq database from 10th December 2008 until 31st May 2018. I tried using this command --p-query '33175[BioProject] OR 33317[BioProject] AND ("2008/12/10"[PDAT] : "2018/05/31"[PDAT])' but it showed error like
Plugin error from rescript:
No sequences for given query
I was afraid that there's no return in that range of date, so I searched it in NCBI and got 19056 items, which means there're output for that specific --p-query.
Is there any mistake in my query for rescript or any suggestion that I can do to get specific range of date in my RefSeq database?
Any suggestion would be so much help for me 
Thanks !!
Hi @Immanuelle_Kezia ,
Thank you for reporting this. I can confirm that we are now seeing the same issue on our end — with your query as well as with simpler queries that worked with this action just a few days ago! So it seems like there is an issue connecting to the server, hopefully a transient issue but we are looking into it.
So we do not have a solution yet but I just want to let you know that we are working on it and it may take some days to resolve.
Thanks for your patience.
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Hi @Immanuelle_Kezia,
The issue appears to have been a GenBank problem. Earlier today this command:
qiime rescript get-ncbi-data \
--p-query '33175[BioProject] OR 33317[BioProject] AND ("2008/12/10"[PDAT] : "2018/05/31"[PDAT])' \
--output-dir ./gb-dl-test \
--verbose
was not working, and we obtained the same error message as you reported.
However, upon waiting a while... the GenBank folks appeared to have fixed things on their end. The above command now works and I was able to get output:
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Thank you for your nice reply @SoilRotifer @Nicholas_Bokulich . From your explanation I can conclude that it is because the GenBank server. I'll try again in a few hours. Thank you so much and have a good day!
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I looked around for an NCBI status page, but found nothing
(They do have a blog https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
Where would they post that it's down?
