Thanks for the quick reply Roan. We are retrieving data from mediawiki and wikipedia servers and have very good caching mechanism in place. Just wanted to make sure in case there is such limit we are respecting that.
Thanks Param On 8/23/11 2:40 PM, "Roan Kattouw" <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Sethi, Parampreet > <parampreet.se...@teamaol.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Can anyone please tell me what¹s the throttling requirement for wikipedia >> API? I remember reading it somewhere it¹s 100,000 per day. Also, is there >> per hour limit for accessing the API calls ? >> > There are no hard and fast limits. We usually tell people that if you > don't parallelize your requests but wait for one request to finish > before you launch the next, you'll usually be fine. Also, you should > always put some kind of identifying information or contact info in > your User-Agent header so we can contact you if your client causes > problems. > > There are rate limits in MediaWiki, but they apply equally to the API > and the UI. They're only for editing, moving and rolling back stuff > though, not for retrieving information. > > Roan > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
