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Dedicated backend #1

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tobihagemann opened this issue Mar 17, 2018 · 0 comments

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tobihagemann commented Mar 17, 2018

Currently, retrieving the number of search results is not optimal.

Yandex has a limit of 10,000 requests per day. And its results aren't really what you would expect.
Google and Bing are marked as experimental because the numbers are retrieved via web scraping. When too many requests are made, they respond either with HTTP error 503 or false numbers.

A dedicated backend for this game with a database that saves the number of search results for certain words would at least solve some uncertainty.

I'll probably never be able to solve this for creating custom games because new words will always generate new requests to a search engine.

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