Shauny
February 20, 2024, 8:47am
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Is there a rate limit for posting to the API?
I have set up my site to grant badges to users on the forum based on stuff they achieve on my main site, and I am doing bulk API calls to add in the historical ones now as it’s a new feature.
However when I set it off, it may add 30 or more badges for a user, and it only does some of those then I need to trigger it again to get the rest.
There seems to be a rate limit?
Can I increase this limit somewhere? Maybe just for calls from my website?
Thanks
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Lilly
February 20, 2024, 4:27pm
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Maybe have a look at this topic:
Discourse ships with 3 different global rate limits that can be configured by site admins.
I think API rate limits are here:
### rate limits apply to all sites
max_user_api_reqs_per_minute = 20
max_user_api_reqs_per_day = 2880
max_admin_api_reqs_per_key_per_minute = 60
max_reqs_per_ip_per_minute = 200
max_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 50
# applies to asset type routes (avatars/css and so on)
max_asset_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 200
# global rate limiter will simply warn if the limit is exceeded, can be warn+block, warn, block or none
max_reqs_per_ip_mode = block
# bypass rate limiting any IP resolved as a private IP
max_reqs_rate_limit_on_private = false
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RGJ
February 20, 2024, 5:34pm
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So if you’re on a hosted plan somewhere you’ll just need to add a one-second delay between your calls to stay under the limit:
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