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User agent based throttling is now live

Yesterday we talked about rolling out our throttling based on User-Agent strings. A few minutes ago we pushed this feature live on our servers so now the updated rules are in effect. python-musicbrainz/0.7.3 users are now allowed 500 requests every 10 seconds and every single one of these requests is constantly being used. No surprise here. :)

For the exact details on what is throttled and how to get around your application being throttled, see our rate limiting documentation.

This entry was posted by mayhem on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 11:36 pm and is filed under Hosting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “User agent based throttling is now live”

  1. Mineo says:
    December 21, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    What about python-musicbrainz2 0.7.4? It does not set a useragent by default, so it still sends “python-musicbrainz2 0.7.4″. Is this affected by some throttling rule or can I do whatever I want with it?

  2. reosarevok says:
    December 21, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    ruaok said “It’s not being throttled but you should set a proper UA string in any case.”