Fetch frequency

Posted October 8th, 2008 by ustaudinger

Hi there,

 

which fetch frequency is tolerated ? I am currently in an experimental phase with this service and i wonder, how often may i fetch data before it's a violation of the terms and conditions ?

Is every five minutes all channel_news feeds with 10 items each acceptable ?

Thanks,

Ulrich

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Fetch frequency

On December 6th, 2008 andylister says:

Currently we have no limit imposed and we hope and expect you will play nicely with our service (like besternews thankfully is). The Content Feeds have a 5-10 min cache on them and the Information Feeds a much higher cache time due to them very rarely changing. So querying them too often will not give you any new results that you don't already have. If one user was hammering the service so much it could start impacting the service and other users then we would ask them to stop.

I don't know if there is a

On November 14th, 2008 besternews says:

I don't know if there is a published limit to the frequency.  I would assume they want you to be reasonable about it.  I pull every 15 minutes just as a reference.  I was doing it every 10 but it is a pretty timely call (normally takes about 9 seconds to get a result from Reuters), and so I wanted to minimize the impact of that call a little more by spacing it out since i'm on a shared environment.

 

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