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

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**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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**Post date:** [3월 5, 2015, 3:47오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bypass-rate-limiter-when-using-an-api-key/25990/4 "2015-03-05T03:47:32Z")

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The per-user post rate limits will be disabled if the acting user is an admin.

As for requests per second, what kind of scripting are you doing?

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