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What's the difference between the linked repo and the hosted service at https://till.datahen.com/api/v1 ? Why do I need to sign up for a token if I am hosting my own server? Or otherwise, why do I need to host a server if I'm just calling your APIs? What sort of scraped data is exposed to the till hosted service?

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We don't have a hosted service at the moment. It's all run on premise. The API link you mentioned is for a Till instance to validate the token and for usage stats reporting for each user. The Auth token validates each user's free and premium features and limits based on usage stats more specifically total requests counts and cache hits counter. We don't record nor track anything related to the requests made on Till.

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