Automatically limit searches to 6 a minute

1. The problem

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

Yes, Please.

  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.

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

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.