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Tiago S.6
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11 years ago

Status 429 Rate Limiting very frequent

I have an Android application that gets the Dropbox photos the user has and then it can send the Dropbox oauth token to a web service so that web service gets the photos and extracts the Metadata and...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Where you use an access token shouldn't really affect this. Do you have a basic idea of the rate at which you are making calls? The rate limiting system is generally pretty generous. It also works per-user, so are you seeing this only for a specific user(s)? If so, it may be due to the user(s) having many more files or more activity than is typical.

It may be more useful for us to look into this for you specifically, so feel free to open a ticket with the details if you'd prefer:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact

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