On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Sethi, Parampreet parampreet.sethi@teamaol.com wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone please tell me what’s the throttling requirement for wikipedia API? I remember reading it somewhere it’s 100,000 per day. Also, is there per hour limit for accessing the API calls ?
There are no hard and fast limits. We usually tell people that if you don't parallelize your requests but wait for one request to finish before you launch the next, you'll usually be fine. Also, you should always put some kind of identifying information or contact info in your User-Agent header so we can contact you if your client causes problems.
There are rate limits in MediaWiki, but they apply equally to the API and the UI. They're only for editing, moving and rolling back stuff though, not for retrieving information.
Roan