Hi Tim, Okay, just checking.
Scott On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:46 AM Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I?m afraid we haven?t made any progress towards this. > Rate limiting the users would be the only solution. We?ll try and > schedule that as soon as we can but just to be honest - it is not likely to > be something coming imminently as we have quite some backlog right now > (hence recruiting http://gbif.org/jobs). > > Cheers, > Tim > > On 10 Apr 2015, at 17:37, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Any news on the download API? More users of our R client are asking about > this (e.g., "I want data for 15,000 species, and it takes sooo long with > your R package, but using the web interface for so many species is a bit > cumbersome"), so I am curious if you think it's now okay to expose download > functions in our R client `rgbif`? If not, any idea when? > > If it is still a concern to allow programmatic access to the download API, > I wonder if you can simply rate limit usage of the download API? > > Thanks! Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150413/22de9491/attachment.html>
