Check your resource usage on Rapidshare API - For link checkers

[Gavo]

Rapidshare's new API update measures the resources you are using..

If you hit the limit you get IP banned, this is bad news for linkcheckers so you need to update your scripts to safeguard against dumping topics with live links.



This code outputs how many hits you have left before being IP banned by Rapidshare API


You can also use this to check if you are already banned

<?
$res= file_get_contents("http://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rs...b=getapicpu_v1");
list($par,$ptb) =explode(',',$res);
echo "Current Points : ".$par."<br />";
echo "Points Until Banned : ".$ptb;
?>

You can add it to your script/link-checker to safeguard against being banned & falsely detecting dead links.

Just comment out the 'echo' lines, and add a line into your script where the links are checked


Something like this

if ($ptb < 20) {echo"Out of API resources... Quiting"; exit; }

Gavo Reviewed by Gavo on 29th Jun 2010. Check your resource usage on Rapidshare API - For link checkers Rapidshare's new API update measures the resources you are using.. If you hit the limit you get IP banned, this is bad news for linkcheckers so you need to update your scripts to safeguard against dumping topics with live links. This code outputs how many hits you have left before being IP banned by Rapidshare API You can also use this to check if you are already banned :) Rating: 5

[Yawn92]

I thought their API always measured the resources you use?

[Gavo]

I thought that was with there latest changes its the 1st time I checked there API doc.

Your allowed 20k points, and i must have used x10 that last week checking 500k topics on waz-warez, so I presume they have lowered the limit then ?

[Yawn92]

I think the limit might be bogus as it's been there for the very beginning of the RS API.