On 3 June 2016 at 00:14, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to request a clarification about RESTBase. > > These notes say: > "* RESTBase > ** enforcing rate limits as of today > *** pageview: 10 req/s > *** transforms: 5 req/s" > > Can you expand on what kinds of requests these rate limits are limiting? >
The first one is to the page content requests, documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#/Page_content. The second one, similarly, is to content transformation requests, shown at https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#/Transforms. As always, our first mission is to keep the sites up and running well; as with other API access points, this means dealing with abusive requests where we see them, and (as in this case) limiting access to a reasonable level to avoid overloading the system. Unless you're running a tool against this API at a very high speed, ignoring the Terms of Use, it won't affect you. J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
