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ilektrojohn / creepy

A geolocation OSINT tool. Offers geolocation information gathering through social networking platforms.
http://www.geocreepy.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Too many Twitter API calls? #9

Open Stwissel opened 13 years ago

Stwissel commented 13 years ago

Running it on Ubuntu 10.10 and get this error:

"Error while accessing twitter .The problem was : Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour."

Could it be related to the fact that I run Gwibber too?

ilektrojohn commented 13 years ago

The message is self-explanatory , you exceeded the number of allowed API calls that twitter defines :) See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#rest for more detailed information.

Sure running gwibber on the same machine is related , as "The REST API does user and IP-based rate limiting"

Stwissel commented 13 years ago

OK. Can I configure / read the limits somewhere, so I can give a "cowboy slow down" signal?

ilektrojohn commented 13 years ago

You cannot configure somehow the limits. But twitter API does provide some information about remaining allowed calls in response headers. I'll work on providing that feedback , back to the user so it is obvious how much more he can "Creepy" for that hour. Thanks for the suggestion ;)

Stwissel commented 13 years ago

Great. Nice little tool. Blogged about it here: http://www.wissel.net/blog/d6plinks/SHWL-8FHA6G

ilektrojohn commented 13 years ago

the "thesis" part is wrong but thanks anyway :)