[16:03:54] <FabioQ>	 Hi everyone. I was checking the doc for calling Wikimedia Commons API and it only talks about authentication for page operations but not for a read only use case, for instance using commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php
[16:03:54] <FabioQ>	 While instead reading api.wikimedia.org portal, I see that OAuth is necessary as best practice and to get to a call rate of 5000 req/h, compared to 500 req/h without login.
[16:03:55] <FabioQ>	 Is there a need for login on commons API reqs ?
[16:06:16] <tgr>	 If you use the API directly and not via the API gateway, there is no throttling (but please be reasonable)
[16:08:54] <FabioQ>	 I see, so mediawiki APIs like commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php are considered direct, while api.wikimedia.org is used as gateway, is this a correct assumption ?
[16:13:47] <tgr>	 Yeah, commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php or commons.wikimedia.org/w/rest.php depending on what API you are using (although today almost all functionality is in api.php)