Hi, folks,
I am working on a project to provide Wikipedia recentchanges for different categories. You can navigate different recentchanges via category tree, and subscribe it by rss, or call it by json. A prototype had been passed, now I am working for a real service.
Since I need access recentchanges by API very very frequently (vary from language, every 100~10 sec a call ), Are there any policy on API usage except the rule that user agent should be set?
I only find Bot policy, but no API policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policyAny one can provide information on this?
Regards, Mingli
On 16/08/10 18:06, Mingli Yuan wrote:
Hi, folks,
I am working on a project to provide Wikipedia recentchanges for different categories. You can navigate different recentchanges via category tree, and subscribe it by rss, or call it by json. A prototype had been passed, now I am working for a real service.
Since I need access recentchanges by API very very frequently (vary from language, every 100~10 sec a call ), Are there any policy on API usage except the rule that user agent should be set?
One request every 10 seconds is not "very very frequent" by our standards. As long as you limit it to a single request outstanding at any given time, it should be fine.
-- Tim Starling
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