<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Scott,<div><br></div><div>I’m afraid we haven’t made any progress towards this. </div><div>Rate limiting the users would be the only solution. We’ll try and schedule that as soon as we can but just to be honest - it is not likely to be something coming imminently as we have quite some backlog right now (hence recruiting <a href="http://gbif.org/jobs">http://gbif.org/jobs</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br><div><div>On 10 Apr 2015, at 17:37, Scott Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:myrmecocystus@gmail.com">myrmecocystus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Hi all,</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Any news on the download API? More users of our R client are asking about this (e.g., "I want data for 15,000 species, and it takes sooo long with your R package, but using the web interface for so many species is a bit cumbersome"), so I am curious if you think it's now okay to expose download functions in our R client `rgbif`? If not, any idea when?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">If it is still a concern to allow programmatic access to the download API, I wonder if you can simply rate limit usage of the download API?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Thanks! Scott</span><br></p></div>
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