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  • Ludrol@szmer.infoEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    REST API docs

    Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP’s per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.

    I think it’s reasonable move. They have Legacy API that cost them a lot of manhours to maitain and they decided to cut on costs and replace it with a new thing. Sadly they decresed amount of api calls from 20 to 5 [needs citation]

    I think they don’t have good PR guy to better communicate the change

      • jayandp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The overhead isn’t the storage but the request. Processing a request takes CPU time, which can get expensive when people setup a media server and request subtitles for dozens of movies and shows. Every episode of a TV show is a separate request and that can add up fast when you scale it to thousands of users.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If they’re storing them in something like Amazon s3, there is a cost (extremely low, but not free) associated with retrieving data regardless of size.

        Even if they were an entirely free service, it’d make sense to put hard rate limits on unauthenticated users and more generous rate limits on authenticated ones.

        Leaving out rate limits is a good way to discover that you have users who will use your API real dumb.

        Their pricing model seems fucked, but that’s aside from the rate limits.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Electricity aint exactly free. Even if the data they store is minuscule. Servers will pull >300w if you store 10gb or 2000gb.