On 03.10.21 16:58, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
For efficiency, we don’t fetch all the results at once. If you show
the status bar, you may see the total number of available results.
If you search repeatedly, further results will be fetched.
OK.
Is there some way to fetch all results at once?
A setting or option to customize the numbers of results fetched?
If not, adding those would be most welcome.
No, there isn’t.
BTW, this is not just our choice. It is also the policy for the server
for the web interface. And they threaten to block your IP address when
you don’t comply with their policy, so I don’t think it is a good idea
to ignore that.
On their website
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/#chapter2.Usage_Guidelines_and_Requiremen
they give the following:
> In order not to overload the E-utility servers, NCBI recommends that
users post no more than three URL requests per second and limit large
jobs to either weekends or between 9:00 PM and 5:00 AM Eastern time
during weekdays. Failure to comply with this policy may result in an IP
address being blocked from accessing NCBI.
The mechanics behind the scene here elude me: BibDesk fetches 50
_results_ in one go, apparently fine with the '≤3 URL requests /s'?
On the face of it, I'd conclude that smaller portions (like 20 results
per 'search') would be fine in any case.
But then 150 results at a time as well?
The week day angle seems quite vague, but open to interpretation that
larger requests on weekends will be possible/tolerated?
But I suspect that 'URL requests' as limited on server and the 'BibDesk
results fetcheing' don not even correspond in that matter?
— Mike
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