# Changing/removing API rate limit with category creation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-removing-api-rate-limit-with-category-creation/78611>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-removing-api-rate-limit-with-category-creation/78611 "2018-01-22T00:51:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-removing-api-rate-limit-with-category-creation/78611/1 "2018-01-22T00:51:05Z")

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I’ve been running into an issue with _creating categories_ via the API. It seems there is a limit, but that limit doesn’t seem to be customizable nor does it seem to have a setting to disable it anywhere.

The error I get is: `We have a daily limit on how many times that action can be taken. Please wait 17 seconds before trying again.`

The amount of seconds seems to always be under 20 seconds, but never accurate as it states that it is a daily limit and I’ve tried within a minute of the last attempt. I’ve also tried adjusting _ALL_ rate limits under the admin dashboard to 1000+, but none of them seem to affect category creation.

The only available rate limits on the dashboard: max topics, private messages, likes, bookmarks, flags, edits, invites, topic invitations, topics, prints, and logins.

I’m using the [GitHub - discourse/discourse\_api: Ruby API for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) for it, which worked fine until the unspecified rate limit was hit.

Am I missing something? This isn’t coming from nginx either, as the message is from Discourse and the rate limiting template for nginx has been disabled.

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