Well, even if it's a public album you can still authenticate as a user. In the case that you don't already have the user's credentials though, there's not much you can do at this point in time. I wouldn't worry about it too much though. If the traffic becomes a problem we can work something out.
As much of a pain as they are, it's almost a shame we don't have developer keys in the PWA API, since it's a lot harder for us to identify the application making requests. If you make sure to pass a useful value for your User-Agent header that will definitely help us out. Cheers, -Jeff On Nov 26, 1:54 am, "Julien Mengelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > (my apologies about my english level) > > what about anonymous (no user login) request ? > If i have some users requesting for public album in same time, will it be > detected like 1 user or not ? Since request will come from same server. > > Otherwise, is it possible to have an agreement with google (if traffic > become too heavy) ? > > 2008/11/24 Jeff Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
