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OAI university endpoints (kbin.earth)

submitted 6 days ago by obbeel@kbin.earth to c/ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I’m using university journal portal OAI endpoints for the third time in a row to fix a typo and handle DOI lookups.

Does anyone know how disrespectful or intrusive this is considered to be?

A few years ago, I scraped arXiv and they blocked my IP almost immediately; perhaps if I had used arXiv’s OAI interface, they wouldn't have blocked me.

But I really have no idea just how disrespectful or intrusive this is!

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[–] obbeel@kbin.earth 1 points 4 days ago

OAI are API endpoints for metadata access of articles. I imagine API access is more respectful in terms of bandwidth since it's organized specifically for access by the universities?