Karl Fogel wrote: > Max Bowsher <[email protected]> writes: >> Quoting https://dev.launchpad.net/API: >> >> """ >> Authenticated Access Only >> >> By design, there is no anonymous access through the API. You can do >> read-only access (through a read-only token) but not anonymous access. >> All API use is accounted to a person. >> """ >> >> Why? >> >> Please feel free to respond in the form of a wiki edit :-) > > I'll answer here, and see if anyone follows up with more (or more > correct) information, before we put this in the wiki. > > My understanding is that it's a way to have some safeguard against > [possibly accidental] DoS. If all accesses are authenticated, then if > someone does something that causes a problem, we can shut off just that > person's API access. (Presumably, we'd then try to contact them and > figure out a better solution.)
The obvious followup question, then, is: Why is this treated any differently to someone abusively screenscraping information from Launchpad webpages? Max.
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