To view the message count using ScratchAPI you go here.

https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Turtsles/messages/count/

But using getrequest or scratchclient in python it resuts as 0 messages no matter what, why is this?

Because someone was spamming this endpoint, scripts are now blocked from using it.

dhuls wrote:

Because someone was spamming this endpoint, scripts are now blocked from using it.

Woah really? Is there a source post I can get?

SansStudios wrote:

Woah really? Is there a source post I can get?

deleted, sadly. I think it was because the person who made the topic also gave directions on how to avoid the block.

related: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/5528026, https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/5527647

Chiroyce wrote:

deleted, sadly. I think it was because the person who made the topic also gave directions on how to avoid the block.

related: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/5528026, https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/5527647

Thanks for the topics

I really don't understand why people need to spam the API for their cloud projects. It's not hard to use call-response in projects (the cloud servers are websockets ). Oh well.

SansStudios wrote:

I really don't understand why people need to spam the API for their cloud projects. It's not hard to use call-response in projects (the cloud servers are websockets :rolleyes ). Oh well.

It's for live messag counts, so the project updates automatically, for that they'll have to get the count every 3-5 seconds or so, some even used sub-zero delays, which means around 10 requests a second

Chiroyce wrote:

SansStudios wrote:

I really don't understand why people need to spam the API for their cloud projects. It's not hard to use call-response in projects (the cloud servers are websockets :rolleyes ). Oh well.

It's for live messag counts, so the project updates automatically, for that they'll have to get the count every 3-5 seconds or so, some even used sub-zero delays, which means around 10 requests a second

And they say you shouldn't make that many requests.

Turtsles wrote:

To view the message count using ScratchAPI you go here.

https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Turtsles/messages/count/

But using getrequest or scratchclient in python it resuts as 0 messages no matter what, why is this?

You can still get the real messages count. The messages count endpoint needs some headers (eg. user-agent) for it to give the messages count. This messages count feature works in ScratchConnect but not in ScratchClient because it's owner has not updated that library.

Sid72020123 wrote:

Turtsles wrote:

To view the message count using ScratchAPI you go here.

https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Turtsles/messages/count/

But using getrequest or scratchclient in python it resuts as 0 messages no matter what, why is this?

You can still get the real messages count. The messages count endpoint needs some headers (eg. user-agent) for it to give the messages count. This messages count feature works in ScratchConnect but not in ScratchClient because it's owner has not updated that library.

ScratchConnect plug? lol

ajsya wrote:

Sid72020123 wrote:

Turtsles wrote:

To view the message count using ScratchAPI you go here.

https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Turtsles/messages/count/

But using getrequest or scratchclient in python it resuts as 0 messages no matter what, why is this?

You can still get the real messages count. The messages count endpoint needs some headers (eg. user-agent) for it to give the messages count. This messages count feature works in ScratchConnect but not in ScratchClient because it's owner has not updated that library.

ScratchConnect plug? lol

LOL

i checked gdpr0000001's account (the glitched one) and they have 0 messages