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 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.

What happens if you disable the global admin api rate limit (raise it to say 500 a minute and 500 per ten seconds)? Does this go away? I would guess that something about your script is pummeling too many requests at the server.

See: [image] Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting Discourse ships with 3 different global rate limits that can be configured by site admins. Global per-ip rate limits These limits apply to every unique IP address that hits the Discourse application. (files that are served directly from the filesystem or the CDN are excluded) By default this rate limit is enabled, you may disable it or set it to a reporting mode. DISCOURSE_MAX_REQS_PER_IP_MODE : default block, this rate limit applies out of the box. (other options are warn, warn+block, and n…

Thanks @sam, not sure how I missed that!

No worries, I have meant to make that post for a while @mpalmer asked for it a few weeks ago ;p @community FYI ^^^

Ahh, it’s new, didn’t notice that either. Not on top of it today I guess… I’m only performing one request though to create a category and don’t see any daily limits there. Is there another limit that would be attributing to the 429 error?

Well first thing I would try is another API endpoint to see if this is the global rate limit or some specific rate limit on category creation (or maybe a user rate limit in the app), be sure your api_username is an admin

Using ‘system’ and the key was generated via the admin dashboard. It don’t have an issue grabbing the category list, only creating a category.

Not seeing anything particular in the app, I would try a different admin user to see what happens, maybe the error you are getting is a different limit.

Tried another user and a generic key for all users, but both hit the same 429 error and limit when trying to create a category.

Is there anything in the response body you are getting.

Just the error message: {"errors"=>["We have a daily limit on how many times that action can be taken. Please wait 21 seconds before trying again."], "error_type"=>"rate_limit"} (DiscourseApi::TooManyRequests)

Changing/removing API rate limit with category creation

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sam (Sam Saffron) July 31, 2019, 4:31am 17

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