Questions tagged [rate-limit]
Questions about: throttling, the `backoff` flag, the quotas, or the rate limiting of requests made to the API. API calls are restricted both by per-second rates and by daily quotas.
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How API Keys Work (FAQ)
What are the API request limits?
A single IP address can only make a certain number of API requests per day, depending on the presence of a valid API key.
Default API daily limits:
Key: 10,000
No Key:...
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Request Throttling Limits
What are permissible requests "speeds?"
The API will cut you off if you make more than 30 requests over 5 seconds to any single endpoint (currently 30 requests per second, https://api....
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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 API
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?
After encountering a throttle violation today (which I posted in another question), it occurred to me that although I've put together code to handle "backoff" conditions, and potentially throttle ...
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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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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Twitter has the ability as part of its API to query the current rate limit status. Going to this url will show you how many requests can be made before the limit is reached:
{"remaining_hits":150,
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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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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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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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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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After a throttle violation, could the error message include the time when the block will be lifted?
I got my first throttle violation error after running in jsFiddle some example code given to me by a library author in response to a question of mine about how to use their library.
This is the error ...
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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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Add a special page where developers can reset throttle timeouts
As George Edison noted, it would be useful to have a special page where developers can reset the throttle timeout when we accidentally trigger it.
This happened to me this morning — I got banned for ...
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Why do I get a throttle violation after 300 requests while using a key but no access_token?
I'm doing some testing on my app, and I let it run on a machine this afternoon while I was away. When I got back, I was geting 503 throttle violation errors from my API calls.
I was calling the "...
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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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Best strategies for calling the API with full throttling support?
I know this would be subjective on a normal SE site but as the relevant chat rooms are mostly dormant, we have no meta site, and nobody noticed when I asked if this kind of question is OK here, I'm ...
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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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