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paradoxIn
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

What is threshhold limit for Dropbox apis and Dropbox business apis

Hii all,

      Is there any threshhold limits (that is no of request per second, per minute etc..) for dropbox apis and dropbox business apis. If yes kindly provide details. 

Thanks

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    Greg-DB
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    3 years ago

    The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system that applies to all account types, but we don't have specific rate numbers documented for that, and we cannot increase the limits for any particular app, user, or team. Apps should be written to handle these rate limit responses automatically. Also note that not all responses with a 429 or 503 status code indicate explicit rate limiting, but in any case that you get a response with 429 or 503 status code 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. I recommend referring to the error documentation and Error Handling Guide for more information.

     

    Additionally, there is a specific limit for uploads to some Dropbox Business team plans of "1 billion API calls/month" for "data transport" noted here. This is a limit on the number of upload API calls that can be made per team per month, for certain Dropbox Business team plans only. Note that this only applies to upload calls, and not other types of calls. You can find more information on this limit in the developer documentation here.

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