Editing API Access

Do you have a project that could benefit from the data on Anime Characters Database? As a way to help pay the server bills, I offer my services to develop a custom API to suit for your needs for a small fee. 

 [http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/api_series_characters.php Current API Tools]

==How Not To Get Banned==

===First, you need to set a HTTP_USER_AGENT for the tool you will be accessing ACDB from.===

 Using the wrong user agent will ban your IP for the day ( 402 Payment Required )

If you leave it with the default, you will be joining a pool of people who also left it default, and together may pose a DDoS threat. This is why I auto ban curl/python/wget any any other popular tool.

To safely check your user agent, visit this page: https://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/vars.php

===Second, you need to rate limit your requests.===

 30 pages in 3 seconds will trigger a DoS ban. ( 429 Too Many Requests )
 100 pages in 100 seconds will trigger a day ban ( 503 Service Unavailable )
 3000 pages in day will trigger a day ban ( 503 Service Unavailable )
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+Do you have a project that could benefit from the data on Anime Characters Database? As a way to help pay the server bills, I offer my services to develop a custom API to suit for your needs for a small fee.
   [http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/api_series_characters.php Current API Tools]
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 ===First, you need to set a HTTP_USER_AGENT for the tool you will be accessing ACDB from.===
-  You will get errors like ( 402 Payment Required ) if Python,Perl,etc is in your user agent.
+  Using the wrong user agent will ban your IP for the day ( 402 Payment Required )
 If you leave it with the default, you will be joining a pool of people who also left it default, and together may pose a DDoS threat. This is why I auto ban curl/python/wget any any other popular tool.
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 ===Second, you need to rate limit your requests.===
-Respectfully, limit your bot to 1 request per second.
-Our nginx.conf limits as of January 20th 2021 are:
- limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=5r/s;
- limit_req_zone $server_name zone=fast:10m rate=90r/s;
- limit_req zone=one burst=10;
- limit_req zone=fast burst=200;
-==Changes==
+pages in 3 seconds will trigger a DoS ban. ( 429 Too Many Requests )
-  January 20th 2021
+pages in 100 seconds will trigger a day ban ( 503 Service Unavailable )
-When requesting birthdays
+pages in day will trigger a day ban ( 503 Service Unavailable )
-*character_image now returns the full sized character image
-*character_thumb has been added to return the character thumb instead