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Author Topic: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?  (Read 3570 times)

FastKayak

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Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« on: November 16, 2013, 02:06:14 pm »

I'd like to know if this is working for anyone else -

sometime in the last day or two GET MOVIE & TV INFO no longer retrieves search hits from Rotten Tomatoes (EG it shows a hit but when you click there are "no results to display")

Am I the only one?

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connersw

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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2013, 02:25:58 pm »

I noticed that today myself.  Not sure when it started. 
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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2013, 04:41:44 pm »

Yes also happened for me but now working again.
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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2013, 05:08:32 pm »

There's a limit for how much we can use Rotten Tomatoes API each day.  We occasionally go over, especially during busy times like right after a mailing.
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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2013, 05:12:56 pm »

FYI - I've been able to retrieve info from Rotten Tomatoes once in about 20 tries over 3 days. 

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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2013, 05:00:18 pm »

I spoke with Rotten Tomatoes today.

They've asked us to make a few small changes in how we present Rotten Tomatoes data, and in return they bumped our usage limit up.

I looked them up today and they're the #657 most visited site on the Internet!
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rottentomatoes.com

I guess this isn't that surprising, because I almost always lookup a movie on Rotten Tomatoes before I watch it.

Anyway, thanks to Rotten Tomatoes for helping us out.
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Re: Rotten Tomatoes API broken?
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2013, 05:11:40 am »

It's very important imo, that the thresholds for data usage for such services are never out of bounds. Or at least a VERY few times a year. Because if we can't trust the data being reliable, much of the automagic is broken. I hope it's much better now, because I've seen quite a few items in my library not getting meta data over the last months.
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