@X-Kal: vBulletin 3.7 (currently beta 4) will introduce a spam management system. It’s also featuring Akismet support, which should stop almost all spam
I got a fews questions about the API. Perhaps you can answer these as well:
I’m running a website about our WhatPulse team and therefore I make use of the API quite a lot because I offer statistics of all team members.
When I developed the website I build in a cache so I haven’t to query the API every time I got a user who wants to see a user’s profile.
But after a few days I noticed a strange phenomenon:
My site says that it has fetched stats from WhatPulse via API just a few seconds ago. I compared with the user profile at whatpulse.org and realized that my data was older than it should be.
It seems that the data you offer via API is only updated once an hour.
Am I correct ? And is there a reason why you don’t send the stats live ?
The user API pages are indeed cached for one hour. This is done for saving some server resources. Normally that should be enough as you don’t type that much in one hour
So creating a cron job for getting the API XML’s (and then caching them on your site for an hour) is a better way to retrieve the information.