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Anson:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on September 12, 2009, 11:12:28 pm ---In the case of IMDb, I sometimes get the "take a rest" message when using the site manually, but I'm not aware of them having blocked or restricted the plugin.
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I never got such "take a rest", but after using the IMDB plugin to get episode info on 8 seasons of a series without problems, the next few seasons always skipped one or two episodes with an error "page not found". After waiting a few minutes, i got the next few seasons again without problems. The same happened again at some other time of day on another series.
btw: the errorbox for "page not found" had only one button for confirmation. would it be possible to add a second button for the option to retry ?

Since the number of pages multiplies if someone also gets people info for each episode's actors, i thought it a possibly good idea to restrict oneself a bit before they implement stricter limitations, and not flood a site with requests when not necessary. Since we don't want to mirror the entire site, a little slowdown shouldn't hurt us too much.
The method for the slowdown (wait after each movie, wait after each page, wait after each file, wait some time after a burst of one minute, etc) remains to be discussed later if such kind of feature would be in the planning state.

rick.ca:
Are you using the -debug switch so a log is created? Anecdotal observations about such things don't help much. If you capture problem events in your log, that information might suggest what's wrong. I don't think nostra is going to change anything because we speculate a change might help. Keep in mind too a plugin is just scraping a website. It's going to run into all the same random glitches you do when you're browsing.

The topic here, however, is a special case. IMPAwards is using Google to do the search, and it's Google that's implementing the ban. My last comment on the matter was...


--- Quote from: rick.ca on July 27, 2009, 05:02:16 am ---I'm now experiencing the "HTTP1.1 503 service unavailable" error with the IMPAwards plugin, as originally reported here. This is a result of being banned by Google. If previous experience holds, this means I will be unable to use the IMPAwards plugin for about 24 hours.

The plugin executes the following search...

http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle:+TITLE+Poster+site:www.impawards.com&filter=0

I note I can still do the equivalent Web Search...

http://www.impawards.com/googlesearch.html?cx=partner-pub-6811780361519631%3A48v46vdqqnk&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=TITLE

This results in an embedded Google search which is seems unaffected by the ban. (It passed my crude test of being fed about 30 queries in about 30 seconds.) I wonder if this suggests a way the plugin might be modified to resolve this problem.
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...but nostra has not commented on the suggestion. It seems to make sense, but I really don't know if it has any merit. I do know nostra doesn't have time to be fixing plugins that work most of the time. :-\

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