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Old 02-01-2011, 01:35 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
Their terms of service for standard no api key stuff was no more then 1 cover request per second. Is calibre exceeding that measure?
Easily. The very first LT plugin in calibre over a year ago was based on a webservice I wrote that forwarded requests to the LT server from my own server using an API key. That key was banned because it exceeded the limit, which is why I wrote the current plugin (after trying to contact LT and getting no response).

The problem is that LT provides a key expressly for developers. Given that they don't like calibre scraping their website for series information, I seriously doubt they'll be OK with tens of thousands of calibre users signing up for API keys. They'll just stop the API key process or make it more onerous. Given that I don't want to spend the time on it.
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