Hi there - I can't speak for the del.icio.us policy on abusive behavior, but my guess is that the JS tagroll and linkroll stuff is generated off of cached data to reduce the impact on their systems. del expects that these things are going to be integrated into Web pages, so they're designed accordingly.
As far as a caching mechanism, you could do something like pull down copies of the lists that you're interested in periodically (wget or similar) and then just call your local copy of the data for each page load. I wanted my del.icio.us links on my blog either before there was a linkroll provided or before I realized that it existed, so I did something along these lines, pulling down the RSS feed of my links hourly and converting that to a JS that's displayed on the site. - Whit On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Beat Estermann wrote: > Hi, > > As I understand it, it is considered abuse by del.icio.us if I configure my > webpages in a way that leads to a del.icio.us-request per page-hit. > > On the other hand, the "linkrolls" and "tagrolls" scripts provided on the > del.icio.us site seem to provoke a del.icio.us-request per page-hit if I > integrate them into my webpage. > > > Therefore my questions: > > Would it be considered abuse if I made extensive use of these scripts on my > webpages, e.g. several tag-specific lists on a single webpage, etc. (which > would cause several hits to del.icio.us per page view)? > > And: Is there any easy caching solution to be used in connection with these > scripts? > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. > Beat > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
