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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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