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Just an FYI that Pinboard pages aren't public anymore, only being visible to those who are logged in to Pinboard.

Marciej mentioned the following when I noticed myself and asked what the cause was:

> Unfortunately you've run into a necessary anti-crawling measure that keeps the site from getting overwhelmed. About four months ago I started getting hammered by distributed crawlers from Chinese IPs, with no real way to block them short of blocking the entire IP range. Putting things behind a login is a stopgap while I try to figure out a more durable and friendly solution that makes it possible to have public-facing pages again.






Well that sucks!

Not that I think many people were looking at my Pinboard page directly. But still.

Interestingly it doesn't apply to the RSS feeds - you can still visit https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:andrewducker/


Another FYI: Requesting one's archive seems to go nowhere nowadays.

I'm sure that was more convenient, but did it provide anything that the API doesn't? Asking because I'm planning to use the API to get a dump of all my bookmarks soon—I've always had a very pleasant experience using the Pinboard API, compared to many others.

Edit: I just checked and it's a single http call to get all bookmarks, very simple. Granted I 'only' have ~800 bookmarks, so it may get tricker with larger archives.


Hmm. I still use pinboard pretty actively although I don't usually link post any longer. I'll have to take a look.



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