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Why? The site's raison d'etre is to make subtitles readily available for downloading by anyone. What is the purpose of locking it behind authentication? What di
by pferde 5y ago
Why? The site's raison d'etre is to make subtitles readily available for downloading by anyone. What is the purpose of locking it behind authentication? What did that realistically achieve?
- drexlspivey 5y agoAPI REQUESTS MUST BE AUTHENTICATED With Covid-19 pandemic requests for our API went skyrocket, our servers could not handle so much traffic, so we decided to limit API usage just to authenticated requests for User Agents. In short it means, you have to provide opensubtitles.org username and password in LogIn() method. We are avare some of user agents doesn't implement authentication for numerous reasons. What you can do for fix, if your app is affected: - let your users know about this change - implement LogIn() into your app with user authentication - contact us for pricing, so your app can send unathenticated requests (e.g. if you have free and pro version of your app, it is possible free will work only with authenticated requests and pro works as before) More info on [our forum](https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17110 https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17110) We are actively blocking IPs, which are sending unathenticated requests
- pizza234 5y agoSpam was one reason (I've actually asked to the admins, which were very pissed off by it).