[Developers] query API - overuse and sanctions?

[Michael Callaghan]

Thanks for the replies Jason and Brendan.  I've just found a schoolboy error
in my code which was (literally) the source of the problem.
Out of interest, the incorrect form of query that my code was generating was
of the form:
{"query":{"limit":1,"type" :"/people/person","name":"Samuel
Adams","name":null,"id" : null}
Regardless of the name sent, this returns Jack Abramoff - well known con
artist!!!  Curious but surely logical in some way....

Apologies for wasting anyone's time.

Michael




2009/5/8 Jason Douglas <jason at metaweb.com>

> If you hit a rate limit (which is pretty high for reads), you get an
> error not bad data.  That would be a pretty cruel trick.  ;-)
>
> Can you post an example query?
>
> -jason
>
>
> On May 8, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Michael Callaghan wrote:
>
> > I may through some clumsy use of Actionscript have fired a high-ish
> > number (several thousand?) of queries over a very short period of
> > time yesterday.  Might this have led to some sanction/block on my IP
> > address (xx.21.175.192), as it now appears that any name query
> > (however well-behaved) returns the same id (although other queries
> > work as normal)?  If so, offering my reassurance that I am a bona
> > fide (and registered) user with no wish to bring down the wonderful
> > Freebase servers, could any such sanction now be lifted?  If not,
> > then what on earth is going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
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