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.
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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.
I am developing a mobile application that will request Instagram server for searching photos with the hashtags.Client id is passed with the request.
Since the request limit provided by Instagram is 5000/hour so my question is:-
While requesting api of Instagram via client id rate limit is considered in respect of client id or IP address?
Please suggest me on the same.
I have read the doc but it was not mentioned there.
From the Instagram Developer site (endpoints):
Limits Be nice. If you're sending too many requests too quickly, we'll
send back a 503 error code (server unavailable).
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.
see also "Rate Limit Exceeded Instagram Error":
I tried to count my likes until i hit “Rate Limit Exceeded” Error, It
came around 100 – 150 Photos, and i waited for 5 mins and tried to
like again then the error goes off until i reach some 50 to 60 pics,
from the analysis i suppose Instagram is permitting to like 100 – 200
photos Per Hour.. and for Follows its 60 – 100…
Well, pretty much what it says on the tin.
I'm really curious about how pages like Statigram do their search functionality without users authentication and not exceeding the limits?
If I'm correct, Instagram API allows 5000 calls per hour, so I believe it's very likely that they indeed have more traffic than 5000 requests per hour.
Maybe It's a dumb question and Statigram has a special deal with Instagram to use their API or maybe they don't use the API and they use some other method?
The only special request you have to send to Instagram is the request to post comments.
The API limit is 5000 requests per hour per access_token or client_id. Every user has their own access_token, so as long as the requests from the third party application uses each individual access token, they will be hard pressed to exceed 5000 per user per hour.
That works out to 83 requests per minute and any user interacting with your application is highly unlikely to hit that.
From the docs:
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.
If you are not using user authentication, you will likely hit the limit with just your client_id.
Most likely they're using one of the following methods:
An arrangement with Instagram
Credential rotation
IP rotation
Heavy caching (especially across credentials or IPs)
Screenscraping
In cases like this, if you don't have a special arrangement, you're almost certainly violating the terms of service. If you think your service is useful enough that Instagram would be willing to whitelist you to make more requests, get in touch with them.
They must have some sort of arrangement with Instagram as #RunscopeAPITools mentions. You are able to post comments to Instagram from Statigram, which requires special permission.
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 made a website like wefollow.com. And I was using Abraham Williams (abrah.am)'s class to update user data(followers and tweets) every night. But after Twitter changed API limits I'm kind of stuck.
I'm limited to 150 or 200 requests for an hour. Which was 10,000 before. How can I update user data with these limits. Or is there any other class to solve this problem.
Thank you!
You could cache it on your server, or pipe it through YQL and then set the _maxage parameter sufficiently so it won't hit the Twitter API limit.
YQL has a 100,000 calls a day limit.
Its 150 for unauthenticated users, and 350 for authenticated users. I don't think you can bypass this. Twitter was previously offering clients to be whitelisted (gets 30,000 requests per hour), but now they've removed that privilege.
So you're stuck with 350 x 24 requests per day. Its not a matter of changing libraries.