At volumes up to 120 an hour (and likely beyond), you're not going to run into problems with the Search API quota available to you. You may, from time to time, encounter queries you cannot execute simply due to complexity, but you shouldn't run into issues at those volumes.
Taylor On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Justin <justin.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is 20-30 requests an hour against search.twitter.com reasonable? When > I add features and bump that up to 120 or so, will that cause problems > for it? > > I feel that's pretty low volume, but I'm not Twitter and I don't want > to be a nuisance. The rate limits are not listed, my code does honor > the backoff ( actually it backs off on anything other than HTTP 200 ). > > > > On Aug 20, 3:27 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > > > A few things: > > > > a) It sounds like you're trying to use the search API with > authentication, > > maybe even against api.twitter.com/1/search ? -- search is not part of > the > > api.twitter.com REST API, and you might be using the wrong end point. > All > > search queries should go to search.twitter.com/search -- identified only > by > > a user agent and your IP address. Whitelisting for the REST API has no > > bearing on search > > > > b) It also sounds like you're using basic auth to access the REST API. If > > you're providing the REST API a login and password, your access will be > cut > > off on August 31st when basic auth is completely shut down. You'll want > to > > upgrade to OAuth:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_to_oauth > > > > c) As part of the gradual shutdown of basic auth, we're cutting down rate > > limits every week day by 15 requests. Standard basic auth rate limits > were > > 150 hour and are down to 90 hour now. Whitelisted accounts/IP addresses > > using basic auth are being ramped down on every week day, proportional to > > the basic rate limiting decrement. > > > > Bottom line: you should be using the search api at search.twitter.comand > > you should move from using basic auth to OAuth for the REST API. > Seehttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_auth_shutdownfor more information. > If > > you use OAuth against the REST API, you'll see your normal, whitelisted > API > > rate limits again. > > > > Finally, be sure and read this mailing list regularly and follow > @twitterapi > > on Twitter -- we're regularly making announcements about all of these > > topics. > > > > Thanks! > > Taylor > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Justin <justin.carl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I've got a monitor running on a whitelisted app to search and check > > > mentions. Up until recently it has always shown 20,000 at the rate > > > limit. Today I enabled another search job and I noticed my rate limit > > > is 12,000 while I was debugging it. I'm rarely using more than a > > > couple thousand requests per hour at this time, but with new features > > > being planned I am curious. > > > > > Does anyone know if this was a recent change for everyone or just > > > something I triggered somehow? > > > > > Secondary question, do you think they prefer I hit search once every > > > hour and end up paging through 12 pages of results, or once per 5 > > > minutes and rarely ever get more than one page? I guess it's the same > > > number of requests, but for me I'd rather just miss one update due to > > > downtime rather than a whole set. >
