API search limits

I have a question about limiting tag searches via API. It is restricted to 2 tags. Since I use API a lot (monitoring updates of 800+ artist for reposting to different site) - not so long ago I decided to upgrade to Gold account coz I thought it would give me 6 tag limit on API which actually will decrease amount of requests to the site (I could search for 5 artists + blacklist porn instead of 1 requests per every artist + blacklist porn). Turns out I still limited to 2 tags for API search calls. Why is this? Can this be solved? (Don't wanna use bunch of alt accounts for this)

SetazeR said:

I have a question about limiting tag searches via API. It is restricted to 2 tags. Since I use API a lot (monitoring updates of 800+ artist for reposting to different site) - not so long ago I decided to upgrade to Gold account coz I thought it would give me 6 tag limit on API which actually will decrease amount of requests to the site (I could search for 5 artists + blacklist porn instead of 1 requests per every artist + blacklist porn). Turns out I still limited to 2 tags for API search calls. Why is this? Can this be solved? (Don't wanna use bunch of alt accounts for this)

You have to add the parameters "&login=<username>&api_key=<api_key>" to the url (or pass them as parameters) to be able to use your account perks through the api. You can get the api key from your profile, at the very bottom of all the statistics.

SetazeR said:

I have a question about limiting tag searches via API. It is restricted to 2 tags. Since I use API a lot (monitoring updates of 800+ artist for reposting to different site) - not so long ago I decided to upgrade to Gold account coz I thought it would give me 6 tag limit on API which actually will decrease amount of requests to the site (I could search for 5 artists + blacklist porn instead of 1 requests per every artist + blacklist porn). Turns out I still limited to 2 tags for API search calls. Why is this? Can this be solved? (Don't wanna use bunch of alt accounts for this)

You need to create an API key and use that (Help:API).

nonamethanks said:

You have to add the parameters "&login=<username>&api_key=<api_key>" to the url

Oh, so I'm not fully understood what was in docs. Because I was just using one session, logged in via post-request and then making get requests from api within same session. I wasn't able to get more than 2 tags from API that way, but still got hidden posts that usual members can't see (lolicon in particular).

Thanks for answer!