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

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**Created:** [5 مارس 2015، 12:01ص 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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> [@rcfox](#):
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> migrating data from older systems

Have you looked at the import scripts? They run as Ruby code, much more suited to one-shot creating a lot of posts.

For grabbing stats from a bunch of topics, I suggest either funneling the requests through a queue or grabbing “request tokens” from a emitter going every 1/10th second, depending on what programming language you’re using.

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