I want a python program example for more requests a day

Question

How can I make about 10k requests on

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/+J+/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow

using python program in a day. Where J is variable and changing over a loop.

I am trying to get text data from above link by iterating over J but only 300 requests are entertained a day. I want to know with an example how can I get about 10k requests a day.

Answer 1

You are subject to throttling.

You can get more calls by first registering your application. After that you get access to a detail page which includes a value for key. The description for that field is:

Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange API to receive a higher request quota.

This is not considered a secret, and may be safely embed in client side code or distributed binaries.

Once you have your key, the url to use becomes:

/users/+J+/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow&key=*somekey*

I have an example here where I use a key query parameter in a similar way.

Keep in mind to still check for the existence of a value in the backoff field in the wrapper response. It indicates the number of seconds to wait before you are allowed to make the next call.