Location dataengine is broken

[Vitor Boschi]

They answered my question, and the only problem is that now their API
implements a rate limit.
Quoting their website[1]:

We do not have a specific daily limit but queries that are at a rate faster
than 2 per second will be put in "queue". If you stay below 2 queries/second
everything will be normal. If you go over the limit, you will still get an
answer *for all queries* but they will be slowed down to about 1 per second.

So I need answers for the following questions before fixing it:
1. Is that rate limit acceptable for the data engine? If it is not, we must
look for another provider, but sadly I couldn't find anything usable (with a
free XML API)  yet.
2. If so, who should get the api key? The e.v., the data engine maintainer,
me? They only request for name, email address and website(optional).


Vitor

[1] http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Vitor Boschi <vitorboschi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php is the actual address being used by the
> dataengine. The problem is that they started to require an API key in order
> to answer requests. The key is free, but I'm not sure that we can use it in
> our application, so I'm going to send an email to ask them and will reply
> here.
>
> Vitor
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 25 November 2010 10:45:09 Artur de Souza wrote:
>> > Hello :)
>> >
>> > It seems that the "ip location tools" service does not provide the
>> > same API as before.
>> > So the page that we are using:
>> >
>> > http://iplocationtools.com/ip_query.php
>>
>> This could be used instead:
>>
>> http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php
>>
>> I don't have any build environment setup as my HW is too low end to even
>> try to build anything :-/
>>
>> --
>> Best regards / med venlig hilsen
>>
>> Thomas Olsen
>>
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