Will my IP address get blocked if I use this API for web scraping?

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Will my IP address get blocked if I use this API for web scraping?

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 3 comments

Same as the title, I am concerned about whether my IP will get blocked if I use this API to webscrape Quora. Is there anyone got that problem before? If there is, is there any way to avoid that? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1 · 2014-12-21T19:37:54.000Z

If you use it via quora-api.herokuapp.com you have no risk to be "banned" since it will act as a separation layer between you and Quora. (I don't why you would be banned if you are not hammering Quora with a lot of requests anyway).

Answer 2 · 2014-12-22T06:50:38.000Z

You won't, though quora-api might get blocked by Quora 😛

Answer 3 · 2014-12-22T07:09:21.000Z

Somewhat related: @aaronwinter, we should consider looking into rate limiting quora-api and/or implementing caching if we ever start to get a lot of users. I haven't been tracking metrics, but I'll set it up now so we can tell.