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PG has asked a number of times that people avoid scraping HN, because it thrashes the server. HN is also running really pretty slow today.
by iamelgringo 17y ago
PG has asked a number of times that people avoid scraping HN, because it thrashes the server.
HN is also running really pretty slow today.
- scottjackson 17y ago> HN is also running really pretty slow today. Just my luck. As soon as HN took a little while to load for me, I knew that someone would mention it in this thread. I made hn-api understanding that scraping HN is frowned upon, but also hoping that programmers wouldn't do dumb things with it. As I [said][1], I minimised the number of requests hn-api makes to HN. In the readme, I say that hn-api is unofficial and unauthorised. I also tell people to be gentle with making requests to HN. Is there some other action I should take? Ideally I'd like to keep my work up, but if pg tells me to take it down, I will. Great, now I feel all dirty like The Pirate Bay. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112267 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112267