[ANNOUNCE] API calls hourly and daily quotas

[Olivier Sirven]

Hello,

The Fotolia API now uses hourly and daily quotas to prevent it from
being flooded by bad implementations or by malicious codes.
The current quotas values are:
- 500 calls max per hour
- 10000 calls max per hour

These values should be enough for the vast majority of our users. For
the other ones, please open a ticket using "Contact Support" interface
available in your Member panel on the Fotolia website and we will
investigate your request.

In order to make sure you will not reach these quotas, I encourage you
to make sure your API implementation matches these requirements:
1. make use of a cache engine. For example, there is no need to call
twice getMediaData for the same content ID in the same hour.
2. handle automatic crawlers with care. A bad-designed crawler can
request many of your pages within a hour and may get your key to reach
its hourly or daily quota quite fast. You have to make sure it cannot
happen by blocking them completely or at least by preventing them from
accessing the pages using our API. Well-designed crawlers will not be a
problem if you implemented a cache engine.

As usual, if you have any problem or question, feel free to ask the
list.

Regards,

--
Olivier

[elia.coan.promoservice]

It seems to be a powerful and helpful tool.
But I can't develop with your API, because it still in PENDING STATE.
Actually is more than a week I've been waiting for that key (since I
requested it),
and at now anything seems to change.

Please answer.
Kind regards.

[Olivier Sirven]

Hi,

API key requests can take time. Please be patient.

Olivier

[elia.coan.promoservice]

How much, if I can ask you? Days, week, month?

On 20 Ott, 10:09, Olivier Sirven <oliv...@fotolia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> API key requests can take time. Please be patient.
>
> Olivier
>

[Olivier Sirven]

If it's been a week, it be days in your case

Olivier

[elia.coan.promoservice]

okay, thank you.
I hope it will be operative before th week end.

Thanks

On 20 Ott, 11:32, Olivier Sirven <oliv...@fotolia.com> wrote:
> If it's been a week, it be days in your case
>
> Olivier
>