Slow down, you're making too many requests. Please retry again in 5 seconds. Error code: user_10_secs_limit. I created a theme that uses await ajax(/t/${this.args.topic.id}.json); . This gets rate-limited due to excessive requests. How can I avoid this? I noticed the restriction is flagged as a u…

You need serialise this in a plugin to avoid all these queries so all the data you need is brought down in one go. You should not have to fire off a query for every topic in your topic list. That’s never going to scale. For an example of where this is done take a look at Topic List Previews. …

Are you behind a load balancer like cloudflare so that Discourse doesn’t know the user’s actual IP address? A quick grep and I don’t see user_10_secs_limit in the code except in a spec. I suspect it might be IP related in spite of the error you are seeing.

Here - You can’t grep it :slight_smile: error_code: "#{error_code_identifier}_10_secs_limit", Coming from discourse/lib/request_tracker/rate_limiters/user.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub @truman is your theme component doing this for many topics? What exactly are you trying to accomplis…

[image] RGJ: error_code: “#{error_code_identifier}_10_secs_limit”, Aha! I figured I was overlooking something simple. . .

Get the all-the-plugins repo and look for add_to_serializer

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truman (truman) July 10, 2025, 2:50am 5

I want to fetch the reactions for each topic so that I can display them on the homepage. like:

Topic		Replies	Views
Api call returns nothing when too many requests Support	5	1945	November 5, 2020
You Have Performed this Action Too Many Times Error Development rest-api	12	6509	May 21, 2024
Slow down, too many requests from this IP address - Response to API user Development rest-api	2	1016	January 31, 2023
Feature request: Bypass rate limits for API users when same IP as server (new topics/posts) Support	1	565	August 28, 2020
API Search action too many times Support	10	1205	September 4, 2020

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