Hi Jeff, Ok.. that's clear things up. Thanks,
Feris On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Jeff Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, certainly it applies per user. I don't think we'd go after someone > for being popular as long as their traffic they were generating for each > user was reasonable. The emphasis is on the fact that this is user-generated > traffic. It's automated scraping that is the biggest concern. > > Cheers, > -Jeff > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Feris Thia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hi Jeff, >> Thanks for the explanation. >> >> The caching so far I did for my web application is that I reserve the >> image link (thumbnail and image) on behalf of my user for image gallery >> view. If they need to reload the image, they press a 'reload' button. >> >> For that common rule you provide, is that for per user or per application >> ? If for application I think that may not be enough if we have a ton of >> users base and get very high traffic requests to picasa. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Feris >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Jeff Fisher (Google) < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> While we reserve the right to go after abusive API use and introduce >>> API quotas if necessary, I don't think that you are likely to run into >>> this if you are simply performing actions on behalf of a user. Some >>> caching on your part (memcache, a local image store) is always >>> appreciated. >>> >>> One rule of thumb I've heard often with Web APIs that don't have an >>> explicit limit is to keep your traffic under 1 QPS (query per >>> second.) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Jeff >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums 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-Picasa-Data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
