title: Why is the Ropsten test faucet not working?
body: <p>this is the error I am getting. I tried doing it again and again but it doesn't work.</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oS94y.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oS94y.png" alt="Error" /></a></p>
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  <p>Error: 500 {&quot;error&quot;:&quot;[ethjs-query] while formatting outputs from RPC '{&quot;value&quot;:{&quot;code&quot;:-32603,&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Too Many Requests&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:{&quot;originalError&quot;:{}},&quot;stack&quot;:&quot;Error: Too Many Requests\n at eval (/www/node_modules/web3-provider-engine/subproviders/rpc.js:52:23)\n at Request.eval [as _callback] (/www/node_modules/web3-provider-engine/subproviders/rpc.js:54:11)\n at Request.self.callback (/www/node_modules/request/request.js:186:22)\n at Request.emit (events.js:315:20)\n at Request.eval (/www/node_modules/request/request.js:1155:10)\n at Request.emit (events.js:315:20)\n at IncomingMessage.eval (/www/node_modules/request/request.js:1077:12)\n at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:421:28)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)\n at endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1327:12)&quot;}}'&quot;}</p>
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  <p>this is the error i am getting when I try to transfer test ethereum to my metamask wallet from the test faucet <a href="https://faucet.metamask.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://faucet.metamask.io/</a></p>