Bank transaction explanations

1

We are getting

“429 - Too Many Requests returned from call to [POST] bank_transaction_explanations”

Somewhat inconsistently throughout the day for the last few days (maybe just 10% of the calls we make to this one).

Has there been a change to this recently, or is anyone else experiencing the same issues? We aren’t making any more calls per minute/day than we ever have done.

2

Hi there,

It sounds like you might occasionally be hitting up against our API rate limits.

You can generally avoid hitting these limits by either spreading your requests over a longer period of time or by optimising your integration to reduce the number of calls it makes, for example changing the per_page parameter to 100 (rather than the default 25) (see pagination documentation).

I hope this helps!

3

Thanks David, I’ll take a look at the pagination information, but I doubt we are hitting those limits (I wish we were), as we are posting about 150 transactions a day to freeagent. Even at peak traffic the most we ever post in a minute is 2 transactions and max is about 60 in an hour.

Also there is nothing different about the last 2 days for us (when we have been getting this) in terms of volume than each day in the last year.

4

Interesting, I can take a look in our logs to try and ascertain what might be causing the 429 - Too Many Requests error. To help locate your requests, could you provide some additional information, please?

The name of your app (as registered in Dev Dashboard)
A sanitised version of a recent failed API request
Timestamps of your requests (in UTC)
The IP(s) from which your requests are being sent
Which environment are you querying? (production or sandbox)?

Thanks,
Dave J

5

Thank you Dave, I’ve sent these details into the support email address FAO yourself, ticket number #479159