Understanding the Developer Terms of Service

[Benji]

In the Goodreads Developer Terms of Service:

1. Not request any method more than once a second. Goodreads tracks all requests made by developers.

This is a bit ambiguous to me.
Does this mean to not make more than one API request per second? Or does this mean not to call the *same* API method more than once a second?

Thanks!

[Michael]

It means do not make more than one API request per second.


Sorry it was confusing.

[Benji]

So if I want to write a program to get the user ID of whoever authorized with OAuth, and then list the books in their to-read shelf, and then update the status, it will have to take at least 3 seconds?

[Michael]

Yes.

[Benji]

OK, thank you.