!rant

I have a personal dilemma. I'm creating an API wrapper for a small project, and I ran out of API requests. I "requested" the owner to grant me more to keep testing the wrapper.

He tells me that I either need to pay for more or code better. I don't know if I should keep going or just tell him to off himself.

Out of principle, I would avoid having dealings with people that cannot tell when they are being a prick.

Why do you need to keep touching the API? Can't you just cache a request and then build your wrapper based on that? If the owner pays for his server throughput by the byte then you're costing him/her money.

@spongessuck I need to do everything right, so I need to check everything a regular user can do and make it do what's intended. Also the fact they only offer so little requests for an expansive API. Don't want any stupid issues on my GitHub.

I was in a similar situation not long ago. I wanted to use an API with limited number of requests for free. Solution: I've found another API (had only the basics of what i needed) and used that one for testing my stupid code. I've switched to the original one only when i was confident enough that I can work with that limit on requests. I hope that you can use this 'workaround' yourself.