Reduce amount of traffic to coingecko backend?

cointop-sh / cointop

A fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies 🚀

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Open lyricnz opened 2 years ago

lyricnz commented 2 years ago

We should review all the requests made to the backend, and see if we can reduce this:

load infrequently used data on demand
load "skeleton" data and flesh it out on demand
refresh chart data at a rate sensitive to the selected chart range (no point in refreshing yearly chart data every few seconds)
review polling frequency
find an API alternative to GlobalCharts() data rather than hitting the website endpoint see #226
consider Cloudflare-defeating HTTP client (very uncool)

lyricnz commented 2 years ago

lyricnz commented 2 years ago

Review cache duration and effectiveness (add metrics)

lyricnz commented 2 years ago

Related : #276 support coins very far down the list

Refreshing all the coins, around in a loop, doesn't feel like a sustainable strategy