The way I read the message you get back from the Google Base API server is: The requests you are making look suspicious. It doesn't have to do with the amount of requests, but with the requests itself.
How is your site obtaining data from Google Base? Is there a certain pattern in your requests? Are users browsing all the content or they usually stay on the first page? Can you please provide me (in a private message) with your developer key and I'll try to take a closer look into your issues. One possible cause is that your sites are getting scrapped by a malicious user and this results in a series of requests that Google Base identifies as malicious. Alex On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM, kdhamric <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not to hijack this thread, but we are also seeing issues with our > housing snippet feed returning a 403. The exact same http gbase query > sent from another machine (even with our same API key) works fine - it > appears to be blocking request from our server's ip. Any request sent > from our main domain, www.homesbyowner.com, fails - even a simple one > such as http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=fsbo (with or > without the key). HomesByOwner.com is the 3rd largest for sale by > owner company in the US. We upload around 9K homes to GBase every > day, and use the snippet feed to show supplemental results. We have > been doing this since June of 06. We do have sizable traffic - our > hits to the snippet feed would be in the order of 30-70K per day. We > have never before had an issue, and our traffic should not have > altered too much. Who do I need to speak to about increasing our > limit? > > Below is the text from the 403 error - here is what I see when I enter > a query from this server via a browser: > > Google Error > > We're sorry... > ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a > computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't > process your request right now. > > We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again > soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network > has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or > spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and > other spurious software. > > We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again > on Google. > > Thanks for any assistance, > Ken Hamric > [email protected] > > On May 22, 11:46 am, Matthew Graff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alex, > > > > I may have answered that incorrectly, if you were talking about an > > error message other then the '403 error' then I do not know. I turned > > error reporting on in the php and ran it when it was not working and > > the exact error was. > > > > Warning: file_get_contents( > http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets/-/housing?bq=%5Blocation%3A... > > ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request > > failed! HTTP/1.0 403 > > Forbidden in /var/www/vhosts/shortsign.com/httpdocs/results.php on > > line 327 > > > > I hope that helps in some way, > > Matt > > > > On May 22, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Alex wrote: > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > What kind of error you get from the Base API servers? > > > You should get the reason as part of the response. What does the > > > message say? > > > Not the PHP script exception, but what you get back from the Base > > > API Server. > > > Thanks, > > > Alex > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:46 AM, CArealtorGuy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I would like to know whom I need to contact to get my daily snippet > > > quota raised. > > > > > I would like to raise it to around 50,000 a day. > > > > > Please let me know, thanks, > > > Matt > > > > > -- > > > Alex Dovlecel, Google Switzerland GmbH > > > Company Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
