API calls quotas put more strain on the servers, since a 20 calls per minute is ridiculous, and I end up downloading the html pages and parsing, this results in even more traffic and resource use.
Please remove these quotas that at best accomplish nothing, at worst put even more strain in server workload and traffic.
One call every 100ms could be sane.
With the current limits, it would take me 337 days to get the data I got in 1 hour by downloading the html pages directly.
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[–] thoughtpolice [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
And it took me 1 hour because I am a nice person and put a 200ms delay between requests. With no delay it would have taken a few minutes to get the data I wanted.