I bring to you today three new things in the API, in ascending order of hype:
First, as requested by
Thorn here, regions now have a banlist shard.
Here's TWP's banlist, for example.
Second, as requested by 9003
here, I've added last_major_update and last_minor_update shards to regions, and also LASTMAJORUPDATE and LASTMINORUPDATE fields in the region dump. R/Ders everywhere shall rejoice. Note, the values returned will be 0 until after next minor update, after which the values will be accurate.
Third, and the biggest one, this is based initially on a
request by Darcania. The API now returns many more headers helpful for keeping rate limits, but even better,
the API no longer locks you out for 15 minutes for exceeding the rate limit. Instead, it only locks out for the rest of the time window, unless you
really stress the API in which case it might lock you out longer.
All of this is documented in
the API documentation. Enjoy!