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So an app that uses an unofficial API broke when that API changed? Not news nor "blocking".
by ChocolateGod 16d ago
So an app that uses an unofficial API broke when that API changed?
Not news nor "blocking".
- g-b-r 15d agoNo API changed. They just, almost for sure, decreased their rate limits. It affects using Aurora Store "anonymously" because that means using shared accounts, so far higher activity per account. It's possible they're also detecting contemporary usage of the same account. But there's a slight chance that it's just due to someone abusing the accounts outside Aurora Store.
- everyday7732 15d agoIf it's rate limits, I wonder if Aurora Store could just download and mirror the apk for the top 40 most popular apps (probably >50% of their downloads) and serve that mirror to most Aurora Store users who click the "download" button? Then for less popular apps they can use the old system.
- g-b-r 15d agoThings along that line could indeed be a way to lessen the problems
- berkes 16d agoWhat is an "official API"? Honest question, because AFAIK there's no guarantee or (legal) requirement to support any API. Whether that's fully documented, has SDKs or whether it's something reversed-engineered doesn't matter WRT the support the company owning the API is supposed or required to give. Or am I wrong there?
- g-b-r 15d agoAn official API is an API described in official documentation and explicitly open to the public, an unofficial one is one not documented publicly and only meant for the company's products.