# How to bypass rate limiter when using an API key?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [3월 5, 2015, 12:01오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bypass-rate-limiter-when-using-an-api-key/25990 "2015-03-05T00:01:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![rcfox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rcfox/32/115486_2.png) [@rcfox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rcfox)\
**Post date:** [9월 18, 2017, 5:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bypass-rate-limiter-when-using-an-api-key/25990/13 "2017-09-18T17:01:10Z")

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It has been a long while, but I think I ended up turning off nginx’s rate limiting, and enabled rate limiting in haproxy (which I already had running in front of Discourse.) In haproxy, I was able to whitelist the IP for my bot.

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