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All content is UTF8 encoded and gzip compressed (you may have to handle the decompressing yourself, if your HTTP library doesn't support compression of HTTP data). | All content is UTF8 encoded and gzip compressed (you may have to handle the decompressing yourself, if your HTTP library doesn't support compression of HTTP data). | ||
=== Flooding === | === Flooding and Caching === | ||
All users of this API should employ heavy local caching. Requesting the same dataset multiple times on a single day can get you banned. The same goes for request flooding. You should not request more than one page every two seconds on average. | All users of this API should employ heavy local caching. Requesting the same dataset multiple times on a single day can get you banned. The same goes for request flooding. You should not request more than one page every two seconds on average. | ||