API Access

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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.

You will get errors like ( 402 Payment Required ) if Python,Perl,etc is in your user agent.

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 )