Website thinks i'm DoSing
I was trying to make some code that would check the value of bitcoin, and got an error. I figured out that I had removed a delay, and it was doing GET requests very fast. I put back the delay and it was fine. So, was the problem that the webserver thought I was DoSing? I was checking the value from http://coindesk.com if that helps.
Well yeah, if you're sending GET requests as fast as your computer can, it's definitely going to think you're trying a crude DoS attack on it.
Are you using their API? http://www.coindesk.com/api/
That says it updates their data every minute, so there's no point in grabbing data any faster than that.
Are you using their API? http://www.coindesk.com/api/
That says it updates their data every minute, so there's no point in grabbing data any faster than that.
Thank you about telling me about their api. I was just parsing the html from the home page.
Any website that displays data will have an API to use for retrieving that data.
An API or an RSS. Either way, if you're grabbing raw data then you're working too hard.
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