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dangtrung
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5 years ago

Error 429 too_many_requests when uploading multiple files

Hello all,   I am used Dropzone to drag and drop upload images and used Javascript Dropbox SDK ( dbx.filesUpload ) to multiple times to upload multiple files. But I get "{" error_summary ":" ...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system that can result in 'too_many_requests' errors like this. The Performance Guide you linked to has guidance on how to best upload multiple files, but in any case you'll want to make sure your code can catch handle these sorts of error responses at any time. When you get one, the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not.

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    dangtrung
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

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