On 12 April 2012 00:00, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote:
Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag spiked to a crazy level and the script couldn't get past it.
MZMcBride
Well, that's actually a *feature*. If the db lag mis so high, it makes sense that the bots defer editing until things get better. :)
<small font> possible small optimization How is that api? Something like this could work with appending text to a page. appending text is much faster than retrieving a page, appending locally, then sending again the new text for saving. </small font>