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https://{server}/api/magazine/name/{magazine name}

Are you able to give an example of a public mbin instance (and magazine name if discovering one is non-trivial) we can call this on?

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You can use the following;

Instance: fedia.io
Magazine: teletext

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https://fedia.io/m/teletext for easier access.

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OK, just to clarify (I have no familiarity with Mbin) there are multiple Mbin instances aside from https://fedia.io ?

One thing I notice is that if I call https://fedia.io/api/magazine/name/teletext (and if I look at the docs), it seems like there are rate limits on this API and it looks like fedia.io applies a rate limit of 60 reqs per minute with anonymous access.

Although I would not expect this to be a super popular service, that is quite a low rate limit. Even quite a small number of users could cause us to make more than that.

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Yes, there are others although I'm not sure if there is a list of them anywhere. Kbin.run is another example.

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Mbin instaces: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

Kbin instances: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

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I guess the worry here is hitting the rate limits on popular instances.
Just having a look at other fediverse services (mastodon, lemmy) as a reasonable-ish point of comparison: In the last hour we've served just over 1000 from the origin for both of those so a rate limit of 60 reqs/minute per instance seems like its in a ballpark where Mbin/Kbin badges could get as widely used as mastodon/lemmy currently are and we'd be mostly under the limits - especially if there are multiple instances in play. It does risk being a flaky integration at times though.

I'm inclined to say go with it. We do need to care about rate limits, but not every service is going to be NPM.

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