I could think of a rather simple solution for twitter: Just give everyone an API key that they use to authenticate, and make the limits based on the key instead of the IP addresses. No?
On Mar 14, 12:57 am, Richard Bremner <richyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm yes this is a difficult one. Neither Twitter nor Google are being > unreasonable, and each GAE developer is probably performing a sane number of > Twitter API requests but combined we are ruining it for everyone. Ohhh the > solution? I can't think of a good solution Twitter could implement which > wouldn't make it easy to circumvent their limit unreasonably. I do happen to > have a hosted linux server a I can put a proxy script on, I guess I'm lucky > there, but I am using GAE for its scaleability which my server certainly > isn't. I don't need to go into all the reasons GAE is more scaleable than my > own server :-) > If anyone thinks of anything, I'd love to know. > > Rich > > 2009/3/14 lock <lachlan.hu...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hmmm. My next app engine project _was_ going to be an app that relied > > on twitter. This doesn't sound good. As per your situation the app > > wouldn't > > hammer twitter, one request to the search API every 5-10 minutes or > > so. > > > Given its not exactly an app engine problem did you try contacting > > twitter to see if they could build more 'smarts' into their rate > > limiting? > > > Would be really interested to see if you end up resolving this issue, > > thanks > > for the heads up. Sorry I can't help. > > > Cheers, lock > > > On Mar 12, 10:43 pm, richyrich <richyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I have been writing a simple little app that uses the Twitter API. It > > > works perfectly on my local development server but it fails when I > > > upload it because I get this error from Twitter: > > > > error=Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 100 requests > > > per hour. > > > > ...even though my app only makes 1 request. what is happening is that > > > other people apps must be using the Twitter API from the same IP > > > address. does anyone know a good way around this other than hosting my > > > app somewhere else? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
