Automatically limit searches to 6 a minute

feature
1

1. The problem

Would you mind updating the program to limit searches to 6/minute, and also tell the user it’s doing that?

2

Yes, Please.

3

  1. The problem
    To set max searches per 10 mins, requires manual adjustment of the search pause time in settings.

  2. Simple solution
    Automatically slow down searches to keep under 5 searches per 10 mins.

4

If you can provide an option to keep the searches under a safe limit, that will be helpful to avoid captchas.

5

I have been thinking about this recently, part of the problem is that once you are issued captchas, even if you solved them after 4-5 times of that Google will start to automatically reject all your searches (even if captcha is solved)

There is a hard limit to the number of searches you can do per hour.

Solution ideas:

  • Limit searches to xx in 1 minute, remove the existing delay based option and instead let SCM slow down each request so its only xx per minute
  • On captcah request, slow down the next requests with an additional time penalty, eg +2 minute wait on next requests.

Captchas are not a long term solution because Google only allows you to solve xxx captchas an hour before rejecting your solves.

6

I think option 1 is better.

Limit searches to xx in 1 minute, remove the existing delay based option and instead let SCM slow down each request so its only xx per minute

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