On 21 Sep 2009, at 17:19, Matthew Somerville wrote: > If an average of one query per second is high enough for Flickr - > http://developer.yahoo.com/flickr/ - I'd say it's good enough for the > ever so slightly smaller us. :-) Seriously, if you're only making one > off calls, you shouldn't be in any hurry, so the slower you can get > away > with, the kinder you are to us. But sleeping a second or two between > calls should be fine.
That sounds perfect, thanks! Incidentally, the 2-per-second rate came from the Companies House "API" (such as it is). I'd forgotten about Yahoo's lower rate. If I can grab 50 peeps at a time, then I can easily sleep a good long while between requests without having to book any overtime :) Thanks again, -- Matt Robinson http://inanimatt.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
