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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

My accented/non latin characters do not work or show weird symbols. What is wrong?

You are not using UTF-8 encoding. If your problems are in posting a request, make sure the request data is in UTF-8 (tip: add accept-charset="utf-8" to your <form> tags). If your problem is in the results you get, convert them to the encoding you need.

Everything stops working after I make several requests.

Have you hit your usage limits?

Can I use 3-legged OAuth without a URI callback?

Short answer: no. Long answer: there's a workaround, use a proxy.
Let's suppose you are developing a desktop application that needs to access LikeOrHate through 3-legged OAuth. What you need to do is to implement a website (say, at foo.com). When you need to make a request, use foo.com/oauthcallback/ as your callback URI. You can then store the data/access token/etc in the website and poll it with your application (or wait for the user to close the web browser modal window).

I am getting a message such as 'Association [foo] for [bar] not found'.

There are two reasons for this error:

1. The thing with label [foo] exists, but in a language different from the one you are using to search. Here's how to change it using our API:
   • PHP
   • Python

   LikeOrHate::singleton()->setLanguage("es"); // set Spanish as language

   loh = likeorhate.LikeOrHate()
   loh.setLanguage("es") # set Spanish as language

2. A thing label [foo] does not exist (are you mispelling it?). You have to create it.

I am getting a message such as 'Operator [foo] not found'.

You are using an operator (such as '=', '!=', '>' which is invalid for that data type.

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