Any one can tell me what means "Courtesy limit", such as like 1000 queries / day, for Google's API?
If I am using some Google APIs in my app and give the app to users, does that "1000 requests / day Courtesy limit" apply to each user or to the overall?
I mean, if 10 users are using my app, so does each of the users can have 1000 requests / day, or each of them can have just 1000/10 = 100 requests / day?
Thanks
The courtesy limit is against the account/API key you are using - as each use of your application uses your API key, this courtesy limit is your and you are sharing it with your users. This means the total limit is 1000, divided amongst all your users.
edit: There is a useful API Dashboard for paid APIs
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I'm using twitter developer API for my project. I have created an account with my phone number and email address. As you know there are some rate limits in twitter API!
For using API I should create app and user tokens of that app.
My question is that if I create multiple apps for that single account and use them in my project, my rate limit is multiplied by number of apps or requests are aggregated so my rate limit doesn't change?
Yes. It is limited by account.
Rate limiting of the standard API is primarily on a per-user basis —
or more accurately described, per user access token. If a method
allows for 15 requests per rate limit window, then it allows 15
requests per window per access token.
See: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limiting.html
I saw in some articles that the sending limit for gmail is:
*500 per day if we send by website
*100 per day if we send by pop/imap application
My questions are:
1.- The "100 per day" limit its also for an vb net apps that we can make?
2.- How many mails can be send using gmail API (or how many recipients)?
3.- How can I extend the limit with a FREE account?
Regards.
Based on the Usage Limits page of the Gmail API documentation, we have about 1,000,000,000 quota units per day for Daily Usage and 250 units/user/second rate limit.
All method transactions have allocated quota units, if we're specifically looking at the send method (either from drafts/messages), it will cost us 100 units.
We've a large open system which offers the possibility to host a large number of apps. Every app has roughly 100 to 500 active users. The backend has the option to add a photo album page and I'd like to add Instagram as a feature. The app admin only has to add the username of his/her instagram account to make the connection. But with this number of apps and end users we reach the api limit with our developer account rather quickly. Is there some sort of workaround for this?
From my understanding the API limit is 5000 requests per hour per access_token or client_id. Since every user on your system should have their own access_token, and as long as the requests from your application uses each individual access token, you should be fine since that limit is going to be a per user limit.
Refer to Instagram End Point > Limits
You are limited to 5000 requests per hour per access_token or client_id overall.
Practically, this means you should (when possible) authenticate users so that
limits are well outside the reach of a given user.
According to the developer documentation clients are allowed to make 5000 requests per hour, but at the moment my application is being limited to 350 requests per hour. The error code I get is 400, and the message is "The number of maximum requests per hour has been exceeded. You have made XXX requests of the allowed 350, in last hour.". Do you know why this request limit is in place, and how it can be increased to the listed 5000?
Note: My application uses the API to like certain images, but according to the documentation I should still get 5000 requests per hour.
5000 is total number of API requests(any instagram APIs) you can make per hour using a access_token, however certain APIs like Commenting, follow/unfollow, liking have its own limit of 350 or something to limit spam. 5000 limit is for total API calls per hour (recent photo api + search APIs + like API +...)
See the official documentation API End User Limit for more details.
The 5000 per hour limit refers to authenticated requests, ie: those which use an access_token. Since you're not using an access token, you're limited to fewer requests per hour. From their documentation:
You are limited to 5000 requests per hour per access_token or
client_id overall. Practically, this means you should (when possible)
authenticate users so that limits are well outside the reach of a
given user
I have heard that Twitter limits the number of API calls a third party app can make per hour. I believe the limit is around 100. My question is, does that limit apply per user, or is it 100 calls per app? 100 for the entire application seems very low, but I wanted to make sure and I couldn't find my answer in the documentation I was reading. Thanks.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting
The default rate limit for calls to
the REST API is 150 requests per hour.
The REST API does account- and
IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
API calls are charged to the
authenticating user's limit while
unauthenticated API calls are deducted
from the calling IP address'
allotment.
The limit as of Oct. 8, 2009 is 150 requests per hour per ip/account. Sending tweets doesn't go against that limit.
However, you can get your ip(s) and account whitelisted, which gets you up to 20,000 requests per hour per ip/account. To do that, go to: http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting
Note: You MUST be in production to be whitelisted.
For those of us in beta (myself included) all is not lost as Twitter has an API to check how many requests/hour you have left for that ip/account (the api is called rate_limit_status).
(Sorry, I'd post more link but Stackoverflow won't let me...)
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting contains lots of information, including this;
"The default rate limit for calls to the REST API is 150 requests per hour. The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address' allotment."
The rates are significantly lower than what they used to be. There is no more white listing, and most API calls are now 15 per 15 minutes. In addition there is a cap of calls per hour at 100, and an additional ceiling for things like direct messages; they are also limited to 1000 per 24 hours.
It is 100 calls per IP or per user. and the Limit was recently increased to either 125 or 150.
If you have a Twitter Application that comes from a single IP, like a web application, you can get your IP/Account Whitelisted, allow for 10,000 calls per hour.
It's 100 calls per user, not per application.
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It's most likely 100 calls per IP per hour. I doubt there's a reliable way for them to track which application is making the request.