[Clipart] API bug workaround?

[Jon Phillips]

also should note, that the ccHost mailing list might help as well to
track down bugs...but first, really need to move to cchost 5.0.1 to
make sure its just not an old bug.

http://creativecommons.org/projects/cchost

Jon

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jochen Staerk <jstaerk at usegroup.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> RE the bug mentioned below, please be informed that something like
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> wget
> http://openclipart.org/media/api/query?tags=animal\&f=rss\&limit=300\&chop=200
>
> seems to work (although it passes 384), so I'll try to write a small php
> metadata retrieval command line shell script which tries to get the data
> in 300-item chunks.
>
>>
>> it drops back to html, suddenly ignoring the format parameter. As
>> mentioned,e.g. with the 384th item of the tag
>> "animal"
>> http://openclipart.org/media/api/query?f=rss&tags=animal&limit=383
>> returns RSS,
>> http://openclipart.org/media/api/query?f=rss&tags=animal&limit=384
>> suddenly HTML.
>>  ( wget
>> http://openclipart.org/media/api/query?f=rss\&tags=animal\&limit=383
>> respectively wget
>> http://openclipart.org/media/api/query?f=rss\&tags=animal\&limit=384)
>>
>> please note: with another tag like "human" the 384th item does not seem
>> to cause problems.
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