Hi,
I'd like to get an API key to create a local copy of per-mod metadata for the files I downloaded from the official torrent. The use-case here is personal "research" on the structure of mod files. I have fond memories of listening to mod files in the late 90s and I have some spare time now to do a more systematic analysis on the structure of these files. I would like to include as much relevant metadata as possible in this analysis. The metadata I feel is most relevant in this case is the genre, rating, author name and textual content of comments and reviews of each file.
The API that appears to be most relevant to me is the MD5 Hash Search since I have already a local copy of the files, it should be trivial to recalculate it and sent a single request per file. I expect to be able to use the opt-com and opt-rev options with that endpoint. If not, I guess I might need to send a second request per module
Based on the above, I would expect to do either 160K or 320K requests (I downloaded about 160K files from the snapshot torrents) that I would be happy to spread over time, as needed since I am not not in a hurry: I see there is a 200K "limit" per month that should be easy to meet if I naively wait about 14s after each request.
best
Mathieu
