Track Reddit API rate-limits#18
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Hi and thanks for the PR! Yeah, this project was built way before all of the AI craze and companies locking down their content more aggressively behind API limits. I'll leave very minor suggestions, but the ability to do this is definitely needed. |
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Small requests around to improve the maintenance—could you also add an example of running this code? It can go to /examples with possibly a small snippet from running live, showing the expected behavior.
The main reason for my caution is that I haven't worked with Reddit for many years and all of this web code can't really be unit-tested, so it's nice having a proof that "some point in time this worked."
Thanks!
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| Values RedditVals | ||
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| RateLimitUsed int // The number of requests used in the current rate limit window |
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For the godoc and LSPs to work nicely, can you put the inlined comments above the declaration in godoc format of // RateLimitUsed indicates the number of...
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| // Reddit returns integers for X-Ratelimit-Used and X-Ratelimit-Reset, but not for X-Ratelimit-Remaining |
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Can you link the same link from the PR? So whenever someone looks at the code in the future, they can see where these values are documented and look back on them—say when/if they change in the future.
| // Reddit returns integers for X-Ratelimit-Used and X-Ratelimit-Reset, but not for X-Ratelimit-Remaining | ||
| if rateLimitUsed := response.Header.Get("X-Ratelimit-Used"); rateLimitUsed != "" { | ||
| if used, err := strconv.Atoi(rateLimitUsed); err == nil { | ||
| c.RateLimitUsed = used |
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Would it make sense to give these some default values other than 0? i.e., is 0 a valid value in regular runtime and could we have something else to signify its "uninitialized" and/or "unknown" (say, whenever err != nil)? Since all of these are signed, -1?
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This should help those who wish to avoid sending unnecessary requests when close to or hitting the Reddit API rate limit. I used the headers Reddit documents here: Reddit API Wiki. The code handles missing or changed headers gracefully, so there isn't a risk of breaking if Reddit changes header names in the future.