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REST Call Throttling/Rate Limiting
With APIV1 you could make a single REST call and get all of a user's shared folder data and all of the members of each of those shared folders. Now with the new and Improved APIV2 you need to mak...
- Thanks for the detailed post and feedback. API v2 does separate out some things like this, where API v1 would return everything in one call. This was done partly because the API v1 calls didn't scale well, and sometimes failed when there were too many items to return in a single call.
Also, the Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but it doesn't operate by slowing down the HTTPS response itself. If an API call gets rate limited, it will just return a specific error response with a 429 error code, per:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#error-handling
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/data-ingress-guide
How long it actually takes to retrieve the requested information will depend on the specific shared folder and members though. In your sample, it sounds like the 80th folder, and especially the 81st folder, may have large member lists that take longer to retrieve than the others.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the detailed post and feedback. API v2 does separate out some things like this, where API v1 would return everything in one call. This was done partly because the API v1 calls didn't scale well, and sometimes failed when there were too many items to return in a single call.
Also, the Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but it doesn't operate by slowing down the HTTPS response itself. If an API call gets rate limited, it will just return a specific error response with a 429 error code, per:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#error-handling
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/data-ingress-guide
How long it actually takes to retrieve the requested information will depend on the specific shared folder and members though. In your sample, it sounds like the 80th folder, and especially the 81st folder, may have large member lists that take longer to retrieve than the others.
Also, the Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but it doesn't operate by slowing down the HTTPS response itself. If an API call gets rate limited, it will just return a specific error response with a 429 error code, per:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#error-handling
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/data-ingress-guide
How long it actually takes to retrieve the requested information will depend on the specific shared folder and members though. In your sample, it sounds like the 80th folder, and especially the 81st folder, may have large member lists that take longer to retrieve than the others.
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