Hi, I’m running into a problem where my main site is calling Discourse a lot (since I use Discourse SSO , and do the double-ignore blocking, and all that)… and hitting rate limits left and right. :frowning: The good news is that the calling site lives on a fixed IP… so is there a way to globally whi…

Are you caching anything between requests?

I am, yeah. I implemented a local cache to keep track of Discourse member IDs as they relate to my site’s main IDs and I keep track of the last time I performed some actions so I don’t have to call the API unnecessarily. But when my main site gets busy, there are a lot of members entering/exiting f…

[image] Available settings for global rate limits and throttling DISCOURSE_MAX_ADMIN_API_REQS_PER_KEY_PER_MINUTE is the limit it sounds like you want to boost. A better approach may be adding a plugin to add a sync_blocks endpoint so you only need 1 API call per list modification.

How do I disable rate limiting from a single IP

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pnoeric (Eric) May 4, 2020, 6:35am 5

Cool, I don’t know these settings but I’ll investigate! Thank you for the tip.

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How do I disable rate limiting from a single IP

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