Rate Limiting for the API

[apibossinsights.com]

Hi, is there any rate limiting protocols in place for the API? If there is, could someone tell me what it is as well as who it is applied for (per user, per IP, etc)? Thanks!

[David_Jones]

Hi there,

Yes, we do have rate limiting enforced over our API end-points, the details of which can be found here:

Important Announcement: Rate Limits

Hi All, As part of our ongoing work to strengthen our systems and improve reliability for all users we will shortly be introducing rate limits to our API. The exact nature of these limits is still being finalised, however our current proposal (which may be subject to change) is to set request limits as follows: 3600 requests per user per hour 120 requests per user per minute 5 token refreshes per minute These limits are per individual user of your integration and are reset at the “top” of …

There’s also a follow-up post that explains how you can simulate exceeding the rate limiting, which should help to ensure your integration responds gracefully

Rate Limiting Update

Hi All, As per the previous discussion (Important Announcement: Rate Limits) we are still on track to implement rate limiting on the FreeAgent API on July 1st 2017. In order for our users to test their rate limit handling/backoff code, we have added a mechanism for you to artificially lower the rate limit on the API sandbox to 5 req/minute. To enable this lowered rate limit, you need to send an additional header: X-RateLimit-Test: true e.g. curl -H "X-RateLimit-Test: true" -H "Authorization:…

I hope this helps!
Dave J