Comments on: Webthumb API released

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:31:06 +0000

I’ve sent you a couple of emails Josh – and that’s fine – I can urlencode – I just didn’t realize that was the problem…

Thanks again!

- Robin.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:29:26 +0000

On that urls that fail its because its not getting through the url validation code.

My url validator (PEAR Validate) doesn’t seem to like / in the query string. I’ll look into changing that but i’d rather be more scrict on that account rather then less. You should be able to urlencode the / and things will work.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:20:06 +0000

Robin: The system is queue based so its not a big deal to make multiple requests at once. Polling for results somewhere around 30-60 seconds is fine.

Number of requests wise you should only be able to make 250 requests a month. Email me (josh@bluga.net) and we can work something out to get past that.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:18:41 +0000

FYI: I changed the delay to 30 seconds now as I may still be polling your box too quickly… Also…

Some URLs it fails at:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-15-2006/0004433700&EDATE=
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-15-2006/0004433703&EDATE=

These it seems to take forever (no results back yet)

http://news.com.com/Curbing+the+CO2+that+comes+from+PC+use/2100-11398_3-6116121.html
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060915/NEWS/609150366/1003/NEWS03
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/15/national/a062235D29.DTL

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:56:13 +0000

Very nice application I must say. I have been toying with it and it works well. I may have been making too many requests at a time, sorry about that, I have limited my requests to one per 15 seconds. What I am planning on using it for is to fetch my thumbnails for http://globalwarminginthenews.com and the associated environmental sites. Each site may have 10 or so articles per day which I will select from about 20 – so I may be making 100 plus calls to your API per day – is that OK? If so I will probably set a Cron to pull them in once per hour. Thanks again for an excellent system.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:21:01 +0000

Hasin:
Thanks for writing the wrapper. All those requests are keeping my processing queue nice and full. I’ll be looking at solutions to speeding up processing time in the next week or so. But at least part of that will be some rate limits.

By: Hasin Hayder

Hasin Hayder — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:02:36 +0000

Hi Joshua
I completed the wrapper for PHP developers and hosted an online example of this wonderful Webthumb API. The source is released under LGPL. You can take a look at the online example at http://www.somewhereinforum.net/thumb/wb-use.php and Download the source code at http://www.somewhereinforum.net/thumb/WebThumb.zip

Many thanks for creating the service.

Thanks
Hasin Hayder
http://hasin.wordpress.com

By: Hasin Hayder

Hasin Hayder — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:02:40 +0000

Hi
Its awesome. I just used the API and its great. I am creating wrapper class using PHP and hopefully you will get it by tomorrow.

Regards.
Hasin