# Rate limits for API users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328 "2017-05-24T23:58:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/1 "2017-05-24T23:58:41Z")

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I want to create a sister app at some point that will post topics on to the forum via an API user account - is there any info available on rate limits for this? Can we ‘trust’ certain accounts so that rate limits do not apply?

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