How do other RSS services handle rate limiting or bans?

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I’ve noticed in the responses to issues the fix is to contact the publisher and try and get un-banned. How do other services prevent a ban in the first place? If Newsblur is slamming the site with requests I can see how this might raise a red flag. How do other services prevent this?

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We have exponential backoff in the case of failing sites, so when we do get blocked, we repeatedly fetch from the site with a greater and greater delay until we’re able to fetch again. Mostly this works, but sometimes it requires manual intervention on the part of the publisher.

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Yep always good to back off :+1:

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Also wanted to add, that I’m noticing that sometimes Reddit returns a response code that isn’t a 429. Is Newsblur backing off in cases where the response code isn’t a 429?