use the API within the scope of this website

pedigree · 2009-12-09 6:55 am

This is quick and blunt

If you write a mod/plugin/code that checks the API for every incoming/connection, then you will soon find your IP banned.

The scope of this site it to provide a look up at the time of a forum/blog comment or post and NOT as a general blacklisting service for your homepage.

For that, use ZB Block.

cgdev.org just got an IP block because of this.

Again, we will NOT give any warnings, you will just find your access blocked.

Other reasons for banned is excessive or obvious trolling of the database or continual invalid testing (like from 204.14.90.25)

Any RFI attempt on any page = automatic 100% permanent ban

paul · 2009-12-09 7:08 pm

pedigree wrote:

If you write a mod/plugin/code that checks the API for every incoming/connection, then you will soon find your IP banned.

How should I interprete this... currently I have my Guestbook protected with an automated API call which means that each attempt to write something in my Guestbook will result in a request.

At current, it seems this generates somewhere between 100 and 150 requests a day (which I thought was no issue as it was well below the 5000).

So this is only for Guestbook entries, not for every connection to my site. Is this acceptable ?

pedigree · 2009-12-09 7:35 pm

On write is just fine, thats perfectly oK

Now, if you had it check the API whenever someone loaded your homepage, then expect a ban

Youre fine.

cgdev.oprg
xaviermedia.net

These sites have been querying the api on every connection incoming, regardless of the page, that and some religious video rip off (in my opinion) website out of France

Russ · 2009-12-09 10:48 pm

paul wrote:

So this is only for Guestbook entries, not for every connection to my site. Is this acceptable ?

Acceptable, and that's its intended use. We have found most sites that query the API never come close to hitting the daily limit, and you shouldn't unless you're hitting it on every page load.

diabolic.bg · 2009-12-10 10:23 am

In my site to your API only binds my registration page, which means 3 - 4 requests per day. But I removed the script and left only with the protection of ZB Block. She is enough. But what happens with sites that use MysteryFCM's Spambot detector (with the use of this API)?

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diabolic.bg · 2009-12-11 4:49 am

Still waiting for someone to answer me.

pedigree · 2009-12-12 1:17 pm

floppyfringe wrote:

I've only just found this website after having to manually delete spam posts before now.
I've got two questions.
1. When using the API to lookup an IP, where do you include the api key? I seem able to look up fine for now without it, or the api just used when submitting spam not already in your database ?
2. How exactly do you use dnsbl.tornevall.org to look up instead? most of the pages I've found aren't in English, it looks like a proxy blacklist to me, and the one English post about stopforumspam on their site hasn't been answered :-/
Some resolve to 'NXDOMAIN' (including blacklised IP's on SFS) and some to 127.0.0.89 .. is there a delay?
Anyway hope the IP addresses etc I've given which had spammed me but were not in your blacklist were appreciated

You havent read anything yet, I can tell

1. You dont. Yes
2. Youl need to ask them or ask in the General Help section. The how to forum isnt for general support.

floppyfringe · 2009-12-13 2:26 pm

Thanks, that really helped

andriko · 2010-05-11 10:46 am

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has used the API with a statistics / analytics software, I'm thinking of somehow integrating this data in order to create a nice way of displaying this info...

pedigree · 2010-05-11 11:00 am

I have most of this in the new site, which Ive been debugging this morning.

andriko · 2010-05-14 10:16 am

Thanks Pedigree... if you neeed any beta testers just let me know

pedigree · 2010-05-14 10:17 am

Due to the nature of what the site does, beta has to be kept strictly away from the databases so its all closed behind two cisco firewalls.

nightcrawler · 2010-08-16 11:59 am

I don't really know, but I am using SFM module for pligg and it checks evevry user on SFS database when try to register. Does it have to do with my Ip getting banned?

pedigree · 2010-08-16 2:41 pm

When you register, thats fine, thats why the site is here. Checking every IP number when they visit any page, before serving content, that will get you banned

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