Editing Encyclopedia:Database download (section)

====Sample blocked crawler email====

:IP address '''''nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn''''' was retrieving up to 50 pages per second from wikipedia.org addresses. Something like at least a second delay between requests is reasonable. Please respect that setting. If you must exceed it a little, do so only during the least busy times shown in our site load graphs at '''{{URL|https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects}}'''. It's worth noting that to crawl the whole site at one hit per second will take several weeks. The originating IP is now blocked or will be shortly. Please contact us if you want it unblocked. Please don't try to circumvent it&nbsp;– we'll just block your whole IP range.

:If you want information on how to get our content more efficiently, we offer a variety of methods, including weekly database dumps which you can load into MySQL and crawl locally at any rate you find convenient. Tools are also available which will do that for you as often as you like once you have the infrastructure in place.

:Instead of an email reply you may prefer to visit {{irc|mediawiki}} at irc.libera.chat to discuss your options with our team.