Hi, Thanks for your answer. The database dumps and setting up the mirror is my second option I guess. Before exploring that I would like to make sure that using API directly is not an option due to the traffic. Or is it? The system being developed is read only. Characteristics below:
LOOKUP * take a search term, return "exact" match article response will likely need to include the title, snippet, thumbnail and URL SEARCH * take a search term; return relevant articles likely only return the most relevant article, and preferably only articles that exceed a specific relevancy score response will likely need to include the title, snippet, thumbnail and URL ARTICLE GET take a article ID, return contents of article I would be grateful for more info on API accepted external traffics. Thanks. 2012/12/28 Petr Onderka <[email protected]> > You didn't say what kind of queries are you planing to do, but > wouldn't the database dumps [1] be enough for you? > > Petr Onderka > [[en:User:Svick]] > > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Ewa Szwed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently working on a project which involves using the wikipedia > > content. The expected traffic that our system needs to serve is around > 200 > > qps during peak time. > > My question is if using Media WIKI directly is really my option here (I > mean > > sending get requests to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ridectly > without > > any local mirror). Would this traffic be supported or banned? > > Also what about the availability of the service and possible latencies? > > If it was banned what is the best approach? > > Thanks in advance for any answer. > > Ewa Szwed > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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