POLL - Should we make the smallest time interval less than the current 1 minute limit ?

[abhinavdc]

The current script will not allow you to provide a time interval less than 1 minute (was 5 before). Should this be further reduced to something like 10-20 seconds ?

I don't want the cowin-pinger tool to be a cowin API abusing tool as there are a high number of people using this script. If everyone starts to make calls every few seconds it could badly effect the Cowin Portal. I feel 1 minute interval is more than enough but I still wanted your opinion. Comment down your thoughts under this if you happen to see this issue.

[yashgorana]

The Co-WIN API documentation page mentions the following

... APIs are subject to a rate limit of 100 API calls per 5 minutes per IP.

So it rate-limits by default.
Meanwhile, CoWIN is running on AWS - CloudFront + WAF + API Gateway. The AWS infra can handle the load, but subject to how CoWIN have built their backed and what redundancies and fail-overs they have added.

Overall, I believe 1 minute is more than enough, because the portal itself is updated occasionally every day. High frequency polling will offer no benefit.