# 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:** ![frizman21](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/frizman21/32/86509_2.png) [@frizman21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frizman21)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/7 "2018-01-03T23:44:03Z")

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We use discourse via API from a Rails server. Which means all the traffic coming from one IP. We have enough traffic that it hits the rate limiter. I second the need for an API exception to this rate limit.

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