a note about whoisi and del.icio.us

I haven’t explicitly added support for del.icio.us yet to whoisi, but that hasn’t stopped people from adding about 150 accounts to various entries. del.icio.us is one of the services out there that’s most agressive at rejecting people if they are polling incorrectly. And sadly, whoisi is doing it wrong at the moment.

They ask you not to poll any particular entry faster than once every 30 minutes and ask you not to connect to the service more than once per second. Whoisi doesn’t have per-host limits in its polling at the moment nor does it have a deterministic polling interval. (It chooses a random poll interval from 1 minute to 60 minutes to spread the load out especially during the initial polling service startup.)

Sadly, this affects adding new del.icio.us accounts as well. So if you’ve tried to add one and it fails, they might be rejecting access for a bit. I’ve seen this reported by a couple of people.

I’ll be writing a bunch of new code to handle per-host and per-RSS throttling and will add support for del.icio.us at the same time. (I need it for a bunch of other reasons, too. If nothing else because I don’t want to die when twitter dies.)

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3 Responses to a note about whoisi and del.icio.us

  1. Patrys says:

    And add support for last.fm :) (feeds work but no icon shows up and it’s a pain to find the link on the page)

  2. blizzard says:

    Yeah, I need to do that too. last.fm is easy, though. Just display code that’s required.

  3. c3o says:

    Yeah, del.icio.us is a major headache for any lifestreaming service. We had loads of problems with them at Soup.io as well.

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