Re: [delicious-discuss] Py-Delicious - get_urlposts

2005-08-10 Thread joshua schachter
That API is screen-scraping. We don't support that. Joshua On Aug 10, 2005, at 3:52 AM, Michael Foord wrote: Hello, Any of you Delicious'ers using the Python interface to the API ? (The mailing list over at belios.de is pretty quiet). It looks like the ``get_urlposts`` function has

Re: [delicious-discuss] Py-Delicious - get_urlposts

2005-08-10 Thread joshua schachter
Not yet. My main worry here is that if we provide the API, people will just hammer away at it for every URL they know about. (the same problem exists on /url itself) I'm still looking for a good way to throttle these requests. Joshua On Aug 10, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

Re: [delicious-discuss] Py-Delicious - get_urlposts

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Cameron
On 10 Aug 2005, at 16:17, Pete Freitag wrote: Another way to implement it would be to allow X number of connections from per IP per day (Yahoo!'s API's typically allow 5,000 requests per day). Then just keep a database table with the IP and number of connections for the day. If they

Re: [delicious-discuss] Py-Delicious - get_urlposts

2005-08-10 Thread joshua schachter
Or you could setup some/one dedicated server for the api that had a throttled connection to the del.icio.us database. Can be done with: http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/ This seems neat. Any actual war stories? Joshua -- joshua schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://del.icio.us/joshua