| ▲ | mebkorea 7 hours ago | |
Fair points and yeah you must be sick of unrate-limited mass scraping. I run with 1.5-3 second delays from a single residential IP and back off when portals push back, but from your side I look the same as someone hammering you. On your point regarding FOI, what you say is fair. I should probably have led with that for the trickier councils. But the honest reason I haven't is doing 240 FOI requests at scale felt like it'd put a different kind of strain on councils, but if you're telling me the scraping is worse then I take that seriously. On "monetise illicitly obtained data"... I'm not going to pretend the £19 is altruism. But there is a public interest in this data being navigable across council boundaries, and that's not something individual councils can deliver. I must stress that I'm not sure I've got the model right yet and a lot of feedback today is pushing me toward more free, which I'm seriously considering. | ||