Comments on: Dave Winer Abuses Another API

By: Noah David Simon

Noah David Simon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:56:55 +0000

tr.im Dave Winer

By: McD

McD — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:08:40 +0000

"For all other methods other than these two, there is a limit of 1,500 requests per day, up to 120 per hour, per IP address."

I think he makes one request per hour(?) that returns 100 URL's. No violation here.

By: Gustaf Erikson

Gustaf Erikson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:03:49 +0000

I doubt Winer has the tech chops to round-robin his requests. I think he simply hasn’t read the ToS or doesn’t care

By: JRT

JRT — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:22:35 +0000

If it’s per IP address though, Dave may not be in violation. Doesn’t he have a large or small block of IPs he can use, as well as some servers? If that’s the case, he’s not in violation as long as he uses different IPs.

By: curtis

curtis — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:28:43 +0000

Winer says he’s using an API call to grab the last 100 links. Which suggests he’s only going over the API limit by 2 (at least for new urls). But still going over it.