clidus

I was thinking along the lines of elasticsearch. Good to see you've had great success with it.

@anuraggguleria: Going to need some more details. What are you trying to do?

Cool website duder,

Out of curiosity, how are you getting data from PSN and Xbox Live?

Also, I noticed you require users to enter their SteamID. For a better experience you can ask for their vanity name and lookup their ID using this API:

http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/ResolveVanityURL/v0001/?key=XXXXX&vanityurl=clidus

Also curious to know what appoatch you took to matching games on the relative services to the Giant Bomb database, as its something I'm looking to do with Steam myself.

Confirmed working after adding user agent to curl requests.

Hey guys, is this the error you're getting? Started for me overnight.

"Wordpress RSS Reader / Scraper Blocked

Sorry we do not allow WordPress plugins to scrape our site. They tend to be used maliciously to steal our content. We do not allow scraping of any kind. You can load our RSS feeds using any other reader but you may not download our content. Click here more information on our feeds

Or you're running some other sketchy bot that we don't allow. Don't go trying to impersonate any other bot now, that WILL get you permanently banned!

Or.... maybe you're running an LG Podcast player written by a 10 year old. Either way, Please stop doing that."

Thanks for the hard work @jslack!

Seems very reasonable.

Thank you for the update. Hope you guys can move on from protecting the API to adding new features soon.

@jslack: Thank you. It's great to see this problem acknowledged and hope things will improve in the future.

@edgework: Putting some information on the IP bans on http://www.giantbomb.com/api/ would be a good start...

I don't think you should reasonably expect API users to religiously read a message board that is so rarely commented on by staff.

I am also fairly unhappy this block was put in place with no notice to developers (outside scattered messages in this forum, which is otherwise ignored by the engineering team).

The message being returned from the API before I was unblocked also stated quite clearly that Giant Bomb doesn't allow Amazon, Azure, RackSpace, etc traffic from these sources unless you are a legitimate business partner of CBSi? This restriction seems utterly insane. EC2, etc are not just for businesses...

I've really lost faith in the utility of an API that hasn't been updated in years and is now being so restrictively blocked. I guess I will start to look elsewhere...