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

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**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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**Author:** ![dylanh724](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dylanh724/32/119642_2.png) [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)\
**Post date:** [18 سبتمبر 2017، 4:06م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bypass-rate-limiter-when-using-an-api-key/25990/9 "2017-09-18T16:06:56Z")

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> [@riking](#):
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> You could simply increase the problematic rate limits in the site settings.

Actually, I did try adding my bot admin to test it – I am still running into rate limitations, every now and then. Do you happen to know anything about this? While debugging, I’m testing once every few mins and my admin account is still getting rate-limited 422. So strange ..

EDIT: Strange, the rate limiters seem to default to 5~15 **SECONDS** (I figured minutes). Something is wrong

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/2533de2bcfa1749afc8c5ef4ee6c9839df93a36c.png)

Either way, shouldn’t an admin bypass these?

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