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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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Would it be a problem if my server polls the API every minute or so about 1 of my questions ...

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 10,0 …
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?

You can use Charles to simulate any response, It has a free 30 day trial, for Windows, Mac and Linux. Just set a breakpoint for http://api.stackexchange/* which breaks on Response (obviously you ca …
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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 …