User:GCPbot
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This user account is a bot operated by [[:User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[:User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]]).
It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
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Description
This is an automated bot operated by User:GCPbot.
- Operator: User:GCPbot
- Tasks: This bot performs high-volume, read-only API requests to gather metadata for images in historical categories (e.g., "Category:War", "Category:History by country"). The goal is to collect data such as image descriptions, URLs, and reliable creation dates for an external project. The bot does NOT edit or upload any content.
- Operation: The bot runs automatically on a Google Cloud Platform instance but is manually started and supervised by the operator for specific data-gathering jobs.
- When: Operates on-demand, not continuously. A typical run may last for several hours to complete a large data collection task.
- Maximum edit rate: As a read-only bot, it performs zero edits. Its maximum read rate is conservatively managed to approximately 50-100 API requests per second, strictly respecting the `maxlag=5` parameter to avoid impacting site performance.
- Language/Framework: The bot is written in Python using the `aiohttp` library for asynchronous requests.