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Timeline for Request Throttling Limits

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S Dec 23, 2021 at 19:03 history suggested CommunityBot CC BY-SA 4.0
updated that the limit is now 30 calls per second https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/throttle
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S Dec 23, 2021 at 19:03
Jun 18, 2020 at 8:33 history edited CommunityBot
Commonmark migration
Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://stackapps.com/ with https://stackapps.com/
Jul 29, 2010 at 6:28 answer added Sky Sanders timeline score: 1
Jul 29, 2010 at 6:18 comment added Sky Sanders kevin, your verbage can be interpreted both ways. you need to be explicit when stating terms of service.
Jul 28, 2010 at 14:05 comment added Sky Sanders a real story to define this concern: I have an app that is working on data from api.stackoverflow on one thread while working on data from api.stackapps on another. Should each thread have a separate throttle or should they share a common throttle?
Jul 28, 2010 at 13:27 comment added Sky Sanders thank you for the response but i think the word 'single' introduces some ambiguity, at least it does for me and english is my native language. may i suggest something like "30 per 5 from your IP to our IP regardless of endpoint" OR "30 per 5 sec from your IP to each of our endpoints"
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58 history edited Kevin Montrose CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jul 28, 2010 at 8:14 comment added Sky Sanders can you be explicit as to whether the throttle limit applies to each api_endpoint individually or the the api as a whole? we know the answer to this but it should be explicitly stated for those who don't.
Jul 22, 2010 at 18:20 comment added Sky Sanders kevin - one more to tag complete stackapps.com/questions/999
Jul 20, 2010 at 3:27 comment added Sky Sanders ++ kevin - you can tag all of the multidunious 503 related questions as status-complete with my unsolicited blessing. Thanks. I can now finalize my libs and release them into the wild. stackapps.com/questions/999 stackapps.com/questions/1043 stackapps.com/questions/1092
Jul 20, 2010 at 3:21 comment added Sky Sanders @dennis - grammar cop ;-) on another note one can be very conscientious while simultaneously being very contentious (looking in mirror)
Jul 20, 2010 at 3:14 comment added Dennis Williamson Do you mean "contentious" or "unconscientious", because I think "uncontentious" means the opposite of what you intend. Also s/will be consider/will be considered/.
Jul 20, 2010 at 2:42 answer added Sky Sanders timeline score: 8
Jul 20, 2010 at 2:17 comment added jjnguy An API is not at fault if they allow requests to take place more than 30 time in 5 seconds, right? Or do we need to build throttling into our API?
Jul 20, 2010 at 2:03 history edited Kevin Montrose CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jul 20, 2010 at 1:57 history asked Kevin Montrose CC BY-SA 2.5