I just read the post by @edgework on rate limiting that indicates some more lenient limits are now in place:
"There's a limit of 450 requests within a 15 minute window."
That covers most of my use cases quite well and once there's a caching layer in place, it shouldn't be an issue at all. I do have a couple particular scenarios though that necessitate me periodically (daily? weekly? haven't decided yet) getting large dumps of data from the API. For instance, I want to periodically grab a list of all the game names in the Giant Bomb wiki. A quick hit of the /games API with no filters indicates that there are current 48,552 games in the database. So with a max response limit of 100 and 450 request/15 minutes, that means:
- I can fetch 4500 games (450 requests * 100 games per request) every 15 minutes and there are approximately 50,000 games, so fetching a list of all the game names would take about 165 minutes or about 2 hours 45 minutes.
Am I missing something? Is there a non-abusive way to hit the API for a complete list of games without making that many requests spread out over that much time?
Looking at /api/documentation, I notice that date/time filter parameters are defined like this:
Date filters: &filter=field:start value|end value (using datetime format)
But there doesn't seem to be any specification anywhere in the API documentation that actually defines exactly what the "datetime format" is.
Looking at some of the search results, it seems like the format might be similar to ISO 8601. E.g.:
2015-01-14 11:42:45
Is this the proper format? If so, what time zone is it defined as? This seems like something that would be great to add to the API documentation if possible.
I realize this is an incredibly old post, but was there ever an answer for this?
I noticed similar behavior where if I search for "Super Mario Galaxy", the API actually returns "Super Mario Galaxy 2" as the first result followed by "Super Mario Galaxy". The website search box returns them in the opposite order, like I'd expect.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Example URL:
https://www.giantbomb.com/api/search/?api_key=<my api key>&format=json&query=Super%20Mario%20Galaxy&resources=game&field_list=api_detail_url,name
My wife just had me mash this up with the trailer for The Notebook. Still kinda works. (too lazy to embed: http://tubedubber.com/#S3G3fILPQAU:_JcqzZvv1s8:0:100:5:0:true)
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