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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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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?

I imagine a /status method would not be too hard, and is crucial in both testing and deploying applications. Imagine an application that updates a database with new questions. It can query the /stat …
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When does a rate-limit day start and end?

For the API, the day ends 24 hours after your first API call. A single IP address can only make a limited number of requests per day to the API. This limit is determined at first request tim …
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