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Prevent abuse of Zenserp API searches #22

@AllenEllis

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@AllenEllis

We should have some kind of system to prevent a runaway bot from making requests on the site and depleting the Zenserp API quota.

This could be a multi-pronged approach:

  • Rate limit requests from a given IP address
  • If the number of requests made to the API exceed a certain number per minute/hour, notify the sysop and/or give people a "try later" message

Particularly because we've cached ~7,000 cities already, API requests should be increasingly uncommon.

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