Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist
Alex Payne
number of requests per hour. When our whitelist was in the tens and
low hundreds, this made sense. Now that we have more developers on the
whitelist than we can reasonably maintain close communication with, we
need to put a ceiling on the number of requests per hour whitelisted
accounts and IPs can make.
Starting later this week we'll be limiting those on the whitelist to
20,000 requests per hour. Yes, you read that right: twenty THOUSAND
requests per hour. According to our logs, this accounts for all but
the very largest consumers of our API. This is essentially a
preventative measure to ensure that no one API client, even a
whitelisted account or IP, can consume an inordinate amount of our
resoures.
If you run one of the services that routinely exceed 20k
requests/hour, please get in contact with us (a...@twitter.com) as soon
as possible. Chances are good that you'll simply need to slow your
crawl rates, implement more caching on your end, and limit requests to
only active accounts. We're happy to work with you to find solutions.
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Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/al3x
Alex Payne
You can request whitelisting at http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:22, btan <btan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I am trying to read twitter search API. I am able to fetch XML feed
> and parse all elements of an entry except link href for html and
> image. I am using SimpleXML in php and curl to read XML feed and parse
> data. I can easily get author name, title, content because it has
> standard tag <title> .... </title>.
> I can not read image link because it does not have the same open and
> close tage for image link.
>
> So, could you please provide a link for image in you search API.
> Twitter provides an image profile entity in public status. I would
> also like to know how to add our IP in your whitelist.
>
> regards
> btan
> www.explorewww.com