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API Key limit 10k is Per IP Address or Globally?
Getting started FAQ says No Key limit is IP Address based, but it does not say for with API Key.
When I test my API Key from different IP Addresses, I noticed that 10k limit is globally, limit is ...
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How to deal with the "Too Many Requests" error coming as HTML?
The API specifies error codes, and messages.
It also specifies a "backoff" parameter.
But, even while respecting the backoff and stopping at errors, and even when waiting a long time between requests ...
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Got 502 response after very few calls
This looks like a duplicate of Throttle violation after 300 calls but this one is reported as fixed in 2012.
Today I made ~450 requests with an app key (no oauth token) and suddenly got a 502 ...
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Is the Stack API daily quota of 10,000 a hard limit, or can it be increased?
We are developing an indexer that will be used to store and serve up questions/answers related to our products. The indexer uses a key (and soon an access_token) to retrieve the data from Stack ...
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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted.
But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got ...
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How to increase app request quota from 300 to 10,000?
In the app management page for a little app I made, the following statement is presented below this key Pw9D)judG8FE4tJR3qjUTA((:
Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange ...
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Why am I being told to backoff when I'm well within my API limit?
I've been running my API app fine for some time now and when I added another function I realized I was being told to backoff.
I only run the app once a night and don't really pull that much data. I ...
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What's an example of the backoff field? Is there some way I can simulate it to test appropriate behavior?
In reading about the API rate limiting, the documentation talks about a method responding with an ominous backoff field, and states that the client should cease from calling that method for that many ...
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When does a rate-limit day start and end?
After reading the docs/faqs, I couldn't help but wonder...
What exactly is a day?
When does it start?
When does it end?
What timezone are you using?
In other words, when my app runs out of requests ...
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Is it possible to access data in real-time using the Stack Exchange API?
I want to show an animation of:
Questions being asked and answered in the most popular tag
Comments being posted
New users joining
All in real time.
Is there access to real-time data?
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Access token quota
The documentation says that each user gets 5 distinct quotas of 10,000 requests per 24 hours, and as I interpret it, per app.
If an application does have an access_token, then the application is
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rate-limit per endpoint per IP VS. server apps in hosted environments
I was wondering if the scenario of a server based app that lives in a hosted environment, where a single IP can be shared by many web sites.
As I understand the rate-limit as it stands, every site on ...
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Can I ask the API to tell me to back off? [duplicate]
I'm creating a bot that collects all tags from a given site (and over all sites in the network). I would obviously like to run this bot in as little time as possible, but I also do not want to overly ...
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What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?
What will be the effective rate limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from the same IP address?
Will it be whatever only one of the keys can use? So maximum 10k?
Will rate-limit ...
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Getting Question data using stack.PHP fails after a certain number of requests
I am trying to build an RSS feed that includes any/all questions that I have answered, and been accepted as the correct answer.
I am running into an issue where I'm sending too many requests and ...
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What's the relation between access_token, key, quota_max, and throttling?
From How API Keys Work (FAQ) I read that the limit of requests per day per IP is 300 without a registered key, or 10000 with it.
And this is what I see by experimenting myself: since I've not ...
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Stack Exchange API not realtime?
I was testing the inbox/unread API but noticed that there is a big delay between one gets a message, and this message gets included in the API response. Like one minute or more.
Is this API not real-...
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Does the API key need to be kept secret?
For a project of mine, I need to know if I need to keep the API key secret or not.
If I do, I'm not sure how I'm going to effect its protection, as Emacs Lisp files are stored in plain text (and byte-...
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Do my users need to be logged in, for quota?
I am building an application and want to showcase relevant Stack Overflow questions. I have made the request and getting a response, but its responding with a quota value:
"quota_max": 300,
"...
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Is it okay to just send the API key (without implementing oauth-2 login)?
I'm writing a small Android app that issues customizable queries and displays the results in a read-only format. I might implement oauth-2 in a future version, but want to leave it out of version 1.0 (...
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How to increase the allowed number of API calls?
Stack Exchange provides the possibility to do a limited number of API calls per day from the same IP (10,000 if the customer registers the app).
Is it possible to get that number increased?
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How does 1 request every 5 seconds exceed the 30 requests per second limit?
I'm doing a run every 5 seconds for this API call:
url = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/no-answers?pagesize=30&fromdate={date_today}&order=desc&sort=creation&site=...
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Would it be a problem if my server polls the API every minute or so about 1 of my questions on my list?
I know that officially identical requests cannot be done in more than one minute.
But would it be a problem if I had a server which had a list of question IDs (say 10 per user, so reasonable max 10,...
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Get a great many counts of questions, by select tags for a date range?
I am trying to get the number of questions associated with a specific tag for a particular date range. I initially assumed the fromdate and todate parameters would do this. However, it appears that ...
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What about actually identical requests?
Now, it says here that I should not make lots of semantically equivalent requests. It also says that there is a lot of caching. So I was wondering, what about exactly identical requests. Should I wait ...
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What is the root cause for too many request issue?
I am getting the following error when importing questions under a particular tag name:
{"error_id":502,"error_message":"too many requests from this IP, more
requests available in 56100
seconds"...
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