# Rate limits for API users

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**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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**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/2 "2017-05-25T14:30:44Z")

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As far as I know, using an API key (generated in the admin interface) bypasses rate limits that are checked within the rails stack, e.g. limits on the number of posts.  
It will not bypass the general limit on the number of requests per second enforced by `nginx`, but most likely, that won’t be a problem 🙂

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