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Kai Wu T.'s avatar
Kai Wu T.
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10 years ago

Increase Rate Limit

Hi, I have an app that is scanning through the users folders and files. However, I am hitting 429 error if I increase the amount of requests that I make. As I am trying to make the scan faster, is th...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

We can't currently increase the rate limits for any particular app or user, but I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback. 

There are sometimes ways to optimize your API app though. For example, in the Core API, if you're using /metadata to download information about many files and folders, /delta may be more efficient.

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