Continuing the discussion from Important Announcement: Rate Limits:
I have just been auditing our scripts that access the API. Our worst script currently makes 250 calls in ~80 seconds but only runs once per day. While this is well within the daily quota I am unsure if it would hit the per minute quota as that is only burst!?
Can you elaborate on when burst is used please? 
Thank you
Dan
Hi Dan,
Burst limits are simply lower limits which are monitored over a shorter period of time. This is in place to prevent integrations from firing all their 3600 hourly requests in one go, effectively hitting the FreeAgent platform with a shotgun blast.
From what you’re saying it does sound like your daily job would trigger that limit, so if you could make changes to either splay your requests over a longer period (e.g. introduce a short sleep call between each request), or to backoff when a 429 response is received that will prevent your integration from problems when the limits are introduced.
Hope that’s not too painful a proposition for you. If there’s anything we can do to help just let us know.
Kind Regards,
Paul.
Hi Paul,
That is absolutely fine and I will update our app, I think the number of calls grew as we did so apologies for that 
May I suggest removing the word “burst” from your docs as I think it is clearer without.
You also don’t specify if this is a rolling hour/minute or reset at the top of each hour/minute?
Not trying to find ways around the rules, just want to make sure it’s clear
Thank you
Dan
Hi Dan,
Not a problem.
I’ll update the announcement with your suggestion, and to clarify - the rate limits are reset at the “top” of the hour/minute.
Cheers,
Paul.
Hi, I run query to get ALL explained bank transactions in the cycle. So that was 6 times in a minute and I got 429 error. This is much less than 3600 requests per hour! When I run just 5 queries per minute it works fine also if I run query every 30 seconds it’s OK.
sample GET query: https://api.freeagent.com/v2/bank_transaction_explanations?bank_account=https://api.freeagent.com/v2/bank_accounts/XXXXXXXX&per_page=100&page=0
How do you calculate limits? Please provide a sample.
Thanks
Jozef
Thank you Paul. Please mind that when I run 5 queries per minute for 10 minutes in one go, it works fine. So in 10 minutes I run 50 queries - no problem. Therefore it indicates that system allows only 300 queries per hour (5 queries per minute multiplied 60). However, I assume that if you allow 3600 queries per hour than system should allow 60 queries per minute.
Looking forward reading your post
Jozef