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Sophia S.3's avatar
Sophia S.3
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Dropbox API rate limits

Hi,

I am hitting dropbox API rate limit and I can see 429 status code, I know that dropbox rate limit is per user basis.

I just wanted to know the number, How many API calls are allowed per user per day.

Thanks,

Murali

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  • Sophia S.3's avatar
    Sophia S.3
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    Thanks Gregory,
    This should help my use case, will check that.

  • Chris Chris's avatar
    Chris Chris
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    Hello,

    I am also hitting the rate limit. My application searches for zip files in a folder and extracts them. They contain thousand of tiny files which are uploaded one by one. This takes some hours with fast internet. Any ideas? Should I wait some time between the uploads or zip files? How long?

     

    That is the error message:
    INFO:dropbox:Request to files/upload
    DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://content.dropboxapi.com:443 "POST /2/files/upload HTTP/1.1" 429 None
    INFO:dropbox:Ratelimit: Retrying in 15.0 seconds.

     

    Kind Regards,

    Chris

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