Request for Rate Limit Increase for a Class Project

[Derin Gezgin]

Dear The Guardian Open-Platform Support Team,

I hope that this message finds you well. 

I am Derin Gezgin, a third-year undergraduate student double majoring in Computer Science and Data Science. 

As a part of my Statistical Consulting class, I am required to do a semester-long project on a topic-of-interest of mine. I am planning to conduct a project that compares the pre-/post- AI (specifically Chat-GPT) news articles .

For now, I need a large dataset of news articles (with the main body texts) in order to be able to do a good comparison. The current API limits are not sufficient for me to scrape enough data in the current timeline of the class (I need my final dataset In 7 days.). Is it possible for me to have extended API limits for 7-14 days, if possible? 

The data will not be used for any commercial purposes at all and will not be made public to anyone other than the class instructor. 

I really hope that you can help me with this. Have a great day!

Derin Gezgin

[Guardian Open Platform API Forum]

Hi Derin,

Thanks for reaching out.

If you are retrieving 50 articles per request, and making multiple requests, your API limit will permit you to retrieve a maximum of 1.75 million articles per day. Hopefully this will be enough for your project's dataset

Good luck
The Open Platform Team