Allo, I'd like to snarf a bunch of MPs data from TWFY to seed a little database project, and I want to make sure I don't do anything horribly antisocial or dickish like take the servers down. Hopefully I'm just being responsibly paranoid. :) I've got my API key and my parliamentary licence.
Basically I want to call getMPs and getLords once each, then getMPInfo on each person mentioned. I'm pretty much just looking for names, dates, wikipedia/grauniad/bbc URLs, and a couple of other things, but I also want to link back to TheyWorkForYou for each person, otherwise I'd cheerfully use the parlparse XML files (or am I missing something obvious?) So just a couple of questions: First, what's "low volume"? My assumption is that 2 requests a second is a reasonable maximum, but can I actually do way more (or should I do even less?) Secondly, is it better to pass 50 ids to getMPsInfo (obviously not twice a second) than to make 50 individual getMPInfo requests? How many ids should I be passing at a time? Thanks very much for your time! -- Matt Robinson http://inanimatt.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
