# Import posts through API (time delay)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-posts-through-api-time-delay/139819
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-posts-through-api-time-delay/139819 "2020-01-27T10:29:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Arimov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arimov)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-posts-through-api-time-delay/139819/1 "2020-01-27T10:29:02Z")
I am trying to transfer data from an old forum in Discourse through the API. But after making several requests (I pause for 1 second between requests), I get the error, “You make too many requests, wait 16 seconds, …”
Is it possible to temporarily disable such a check somewhere?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-posts-through-api-time-delay/139819/2 "2020-01-27T21:54:33Z")
> [@Arimov](#):
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> I am trying to transfer data from an old forum in Discourse through the API.
Unless the forum is very small, it’s almost certainly better to do that with an import script. See `scripts/import`.
But this might answer the question that you asked: [Available settings for global rate limits and throttling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-rate-limits-and-throttling-in-discourse/78612)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-posts-through-api-time-delay/139819/3 "2020-02-26T22:07:30Z")
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