Alex, The site is retrieving the data via snippet feeds.
The pattern would be that the site searches would be that the initial loading page is: results.php?q=CITY +STATE&priceFrom=1&priceTo=999999999&bedrooms=&bathrooms=&within=5&action=search&submitButtonName=Search&order= The users normally view from 1-5 pages of the results. I have emailed you with the domain and key from my [at]graffx[.]com account. Please let me know what to do, Matt On May 25, 8:01 am, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > The way I read the message you get back from the Google Base API server is: > The requests you are making look suspicious. It doesn't have to do with the > amount of requests, but with the requests itself. > > How is your site obtaining data from Google Base? > Is there a certain pattern in your requests? > Are users browsing all the content or they usually stay on the first page? > > Can you please provide me (in a private message) with your developer key and > I'll try to take a > closer look into your issues. > > One possible cause is that your sites are getting scrapped by a malicious > user and this > results in a series of requests that Google Base identifies as malicious. > > Alex > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM, kdhamric <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not to hijack this thread, but we are also seeing issues with our > > housing snippet feed returning a 403. The exact same http gbase query > > sent from another machine (even with our same API key) works fine - it > > appears to be blocking request from our server's ip. Any request sent > > from our main domain,www.homesbyowner.com, fails - even a simple one > > such ashttp://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=fsbo(with or > > without the key). HomesByOwner.com is the 3rd largest for sale by > > owner company in the US. We upload around 9K homes to GBase every > > day, and use the snippet feed to show supplemental results. We have > > been doing this since June of 06. We do have sizable traffic - our > > hits to the snippet feed would be in the order of 30-70K per day. We > > have never before had an issue, and our traffic should not have > > altered too much. Who do I need to speak to about increasing our > > limit? > > > Below is the text from the 403 error - here is what I see when I enter > > a query from this server via a browser: > > > Google Error > > > We're sorry... > > ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a > > computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't > > process your request right now. > > > We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again > > soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network > > has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or > > spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and > > other spurious software. > > > We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again > > on Google. > > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Ken Hamric > > [email protected] > > > On May 22, 11:46 am, Matthew Graff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Alex, > > > > I may have answered that incorrectly, if you were talking about an > > > error message other then the '403 error' then I do not know. I turned > > > error reporting on in the php and ran it when it was not working and > > > the exact error was. > > > > Warning: file_get_contents( > >http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets/-/housing?bq=%5Blocation%3A... > > > ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request > > > failed! HTTP/1.0 403 > > > Forbidden in /var/www/vhosts/shortsign.com/httpdocs/results.php on > > > line 327 > > > > I hope that helps in some way, > > > Matt > > > > On May 22, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Alex wrote: > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > What kind of error you get from the Base API servers? > > > > You should get the reason as part of the response. What does the > > > > message say? > > > > Not the PHP script exception, but what you get back from the Base > > > > API Server. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alex > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:46 AM, CArealtorGuy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I would like to know whom I need to contact to get my daily snippet > > > > quota raised. > > > > > I would like to raise it to around 50,000 a day. > > > > > Please let me know, thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > > -- > > > > Alex Dovlecel, Google Switzerland GmbH > > > > Company Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
