# 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/3 "2017-05-25T14:52:32Z")

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You can explicitly bypass validations if you are using the API and API key, the limits in general will hold though.

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