MailChimp ajax post returns "Recipient has too many recent sign up requests"

Question

I am trying to make an ajax call that adds a new subscriber to my MailChimp list. I tried the solution on this thread Mailchimp subscribe using jQuery AJAX?

 $.ajax({
    url: 'http://xxxxx.us#.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json??u=xxxxx&id=xxxx&c=?',
    type: 'GET',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    success: function (data) {
       if (data['result'] != "success") {
            //ERROR
            console.log(data['msg']);
       } else {
           console.log('Hooray');
       }
    }
});

However I am getting an error that says

Recipient has too many recent sign up request

I noticed that whenever I add post to the sign-up URL the error appears Even when opening the sign-up form URL from the browser

I'm getting the error message, have you found any solutions yet? — Luke Bailey, Oct 15 '16 at 18:28

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '16 at 09:44

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Make sure the email field being sent is all caps, so your data object might look like:

var data = { email: "foo@bar.com" }

When, it should be:

var data = { EMAIL: "foo@bar.com" }

answered Nov 15 '16 at 09:44

Chris

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '16 at 18:29

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just have had the same issue when i was using the link that my co-worker created on Mailchimp.

Problem solved for me when I copy the link (shorter URL) under signup form>Create forms>copy URL in Mailchimp.

Hope this helps.

answered Sep 19 '16 at 18:29

AyeMin

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I don't think i can use the short url in the ajax call, it has to contain post-json – HebatAllah Eldawi Sep 19 '16 at 20:12

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '18 at 08:11

Had the same error and changing the email name property to uppercase "EMAIL" in the form has resolved the issue.

<input type="email" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Email address" required="" name="MERGE0" id="MERGE0">

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 15 '16 at 02:13

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Are you disabling the form elements while it's sending? If you are, you'll need to set you data variable before disabling the form elements.

Otherwise .serialize() will return empty.

answered Dec 15 '16 at 02:13

Alex

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 08 '17 at 19:12

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For me, I had JSON.stringify(data). Once I removed JSON.Stringify() and just passed in the data object, it works.

answered Dec 08 '17 at 19:12

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 27 '19 at 12:38

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I've solved this problem. You have to change 'name' attributes for all inputs in your form to the same as in mailchimp 'name' attributes.

answered Mar 27 '19 at 12:38

Tom Links

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MailChimp ajax post returns "Recipient has too many recent sign up requests"

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