# Submit order API down?

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101>\
**Category:** Alpaca Integration Applications\
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101 "2020-07-20T17:06:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![WinJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/winj/32/998_2.png) [@WinJ](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/WinJ)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101/1 "2020-07-20T17:06:35Z")

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I was using paper account this morning. The submit\_order() API seems not working. It retried 3 times for connecting the end point and then failed. Other APIs all work fine.

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**Author:** ![DarthPlagueis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/darthplagueis/32/1054_2.png) [@DarthPlagueis](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/DarthPlagueis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101/2 "2020-07-20T17:10:11Z")

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The same thing is happening to me. It has been happening since 12:37 pm EST. My sell APIs are not going through from my Python Script.

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**Author:** ![jsthoffman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@jsthoffman](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/jsthoffman)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101/3 "2020-07-20T17:31:42Z")

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I’m seeing this as well using the Python SDK:

```auto
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 504 Server Error: Gateway Timeout for url: https://paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2/orders

```

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**Author:** ![aksu1123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@aksu1123](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/aksu1123)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/submit-order-api-down/2101/4 "2020-07-20T17:39:42Z")

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yep, cannot even buy manually