Add caching of citoid results in the extension
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	Mvolz
	Jul 12 2024, 6:47 PM

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This doesn't help with third party usage of the API, but in conversation with @Krinkle today he suggested it might be a good idea to cache the citoid results to prevent users from making too many requests in rapidity.

We could add caching in the back end too but that is blocked by T361576

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Samwalton9-WMF	T362379 Several major news websites (NYT, Reuters...) block citoid
		Open		None	T369928 Add caching of citoid results in the extension

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Mvolz created this task.Jul 12 2024, 6:47 PM

Is this for purely client-side cache (in-memory, just affecting people who repeatedly click "generate" in a single session)? If so it seems harmless, but I can't imagine it'd have much impact.

In T369928#9979219, @DLynch wrote:

Is this for purely client-side cache (in-memory, just affecting people who repeatedly click "generate" in a single session)? If so it seems harmless, but I can't imagine it'd have much impact.

Yup. I agree it probably won't have major impact, but for sites that do 429s for repeated requests in quick succession, it might help?

Robertsky mentioned this in T372388: Make use of Wikidata items to define if a URL should be using {{Cite web}} or {{Cite news}} and enhancing other fields in the citation template.Aug 21 2024, 7:19 AM

VPuffetMichel removed a project: Editing-team (Kanban Board).Feb 21 2025, 8:51 PM

VPuffetMichel moved this task from Backlog to Next & Doing on the Citoid board.

Mvolz moved this task from Next & Doing to Extension on the Citoid board.Apr 30 2025, 1:23 PM

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