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5:50 AM
@Zoe That is how I would interpret that, yes. I have the impression you can hit any endpoint a tad more frequent.
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Q: How many requests are too many?

DoorknobI'm writing a small script that makes a large amount of requests in order to obtain data that can't be acquired via the API (for example, getting a user's network profile URL, scraping the network reputation graph, scraping moderator election pages, etc.). However, I am aware that it is possible ...

 
 
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Zoe
9:18 AM
Good, just needed to sanity check ^^" Still need to figure out how to best use the pages, but I just wanna make sure I don't accidentally get myself rate limited :')
 
 
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11:16 AM
@Zoe in the few times I managed to get my self rate-limted, it only took 2 minutes to be allowed back in.
@Zoe also: do you really need to fetch a page that often? Can't a websocket help you? Those are not limited. As in: Nick won't notice you create 100 of them.
 
Zoe
11:33 AM
Not for the near foreseeable future. I'm fetching as big pages as possible, and I don't know how long it'll take to churn through a page (in automatic or manual mode).
Page handling is something I do need to think about though
But do regular API endpoints allow websockets?
I thought they were GET-only
(for non-auth POST endpoints, obviously)
For context, it's for the editor thing I'm working on. I'm using a filter that gets me the markdown body of the question and all its answers, but there's a theoretical chance that the page gets cleared in under a minute due to random circumstances and triggers a new fetch. When I eventually add sane page checks (I'm thinking alternating gets between the first page and page n, where n is incremented each time it's fetched).
As long as that doesn't provoke rate limiting, I'm happy ^^"
 
Zoe
12:01 PM
Might also be prematurely worrying about a non-problem. /shrug
There's only so many edits I can do in a day with the current quota anyway
 
12:26 PM
@Zoe no, they don't. That's for V 6-8
 

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