# 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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**Author:** ![lukespragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e0b2c6/32.png) [@lukespragg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lukespragg)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-removing-api-rate-limit-with-category-creation/78611/13 "2018-01-22T01:51:49Z")

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Running 2.0.0.beta1. Not aware of anything looping, only I have access to these keys and the script that runs them is ran manually by me as I’m developing something to automate creating categories. I have 1 call to get the existing category lists, then one call per category creation (only 1 category right now). It has worked to create most of the categories before the rate limit got hit.

The ‘seconds’ varies; often 12, 17, 21, or other amount around that amount.

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