Http compression headers are required starting from 1.6.

[Solita / Jaakko]

Hello,

Http compression headers are required starting from 1.6.

You can of course start using the header right away.

Compression provides significant advantages:

1) Cheaper bandwidth costs

2) Faster requests

#1 is the main reason we're requiring the header

To use http compression, please include "accept-encoding: gzip" header in your request. Most libraries do this automatically

Br. Jaakko / Digitraffic

[Teemu Sirkiä]

Jos joku sattuu käyttämään Pythonia ilman mitään fiksumpaa http-kirjastoa, niin tästä voi olla iloa.

import json
from gzip import GzipFile
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request

url = 'https://rata.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/live-trains'
with urlopen(Request(url, headers={"Accept-Encoding": "gzip"})) as response, GzipFile(fileobj=response) as gf:
    data = json.loads(gf.read().decode('utf-8'))
    for x in data:
        print(x['trainType'], x['trainNumber'])

[Solita / Jaakko]

We decided to throttle unpacked requests before rejecting them completely. This is intented to give a soft "early warning" to developers. Timetable for throttling unpacked requests is as follows:

5.5.2020:    60 requests/minute
12.5.2020:   30 requests/minute
19.5.2020:   10 requests/minute
26.5.2020:   5  requests/minute
2.6.2020:    unpacked requests are not allowed

https://www.digitraffic.fi/tiedotteet/2020/04/30/release.html