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Resolved Scryer not updating

Discussion in 'Site Related Support' started by SilverOtter, Dec 24, 2020.

  1. SilverOtter

    SilverOtter Seventh Year

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    It's been ~9 days since any story indexed by Scryer has been updated. Is this a bug with Scryer?
     
  2. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Unfortunately, FFN has taken measures to control a bot attack through incredible amounts of rate limiting and fronting the website with Cloudflare which presents CAPTCHAs and more. Scryer's crawler isn't attempting to break these protections.

    FFN is working on an API for uses like Scryer's. I'll hopefully get access in January.
     
  3. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    FFN never followed through on an API, sadly. That said, Scryer has resumed updating, for now.
     
  4. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Hell yeah, time to look for things published since the last time I checked and bookmark them for later. Thanks Raven.
     
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