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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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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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Request Throttling Limits

I have confirmed that a constant interval of 170 ms will run without error. // 30 per 5 sec = 6 per sec = interval 166.6 ms Soapi.RequestQueue.setInterval(170); Soapi.RouteFactory("api.meta.s …
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key not being recognized by api.meta.stackoverflow.com?

I have been testing a throttle implementation against meta today and suddenly got shut down with a key violation. It is possible that I have used enough requests to prompt this but I doubt it. In an …
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Request Throttling Limits

I am not sure if it has fallen off the radar or if it is an honest oversight but we can't seem to get an explicit description of the throttling guidelines. Core issues like this are critical, especia …
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