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    <title>topic Re: Rate Limit in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20196#M666</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Good to know, but the lack of a diff-enabled upload method (as you mentioned in my other thread) make an alternative client impossible to implement efficiently &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@B0F70D28791EB05FA3EA0C3BDDF08EE3/emoticons/1f61e.png" alt=":disappointed_face:" title=":disappointed_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Guess I'm stuck with the official client, it the support guys ever get it working again...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Colin A.3</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-08-04T01:39:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Rate Limit</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20194#M664</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm considering writing an alternative Dropbox client for Windows, because the official client seems to have a couple of major (for me) issues that don't seem to be going away any time soon:&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Indexing on startup is very slow (~4 hours for 85K files), during which time the machine is almost unusable due to both the CPU and disk being thrashed (on an i5-3570k)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Functionality is basic; everything must be stored in a single folder, and you can't exclude files using patterns (e.g. *.bak, *.lrprev etc)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;

&lt;P&gt;But I just read that API calls are rate limited, which may well mean that it's just not practical to have an alternative client, because performance would be so poor.&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;I realise you don't publish figures for the rate limiting, but before I spend any time on this it would be good to know whether the rate limit is likely to be an issue or not?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:40:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20194#M664</guid>
      <dc:creator>Colin A.3</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:40:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Rate Limit</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20195#M665</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The rate limiting is mostly just designed to prevent abuse, so I doubt this would be an issue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Be sure to make use of &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;/delta&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#longpoll-delta" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;/longpoll_delta&lt;/A&gt; though, for the sake of efficiency:&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/12/efficiently-enumerating-dropbox-with-delta/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/12/efficiently-enumerating-dropbox-with-delta/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/11/low-latency-notification-of-dropbox-file-changes/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/11/low-latency-notification-of-dropbox-file-changes/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20195#M665</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-08-04T00:17:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Rate Limit</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20196#M666</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Good to know, but the lack of a diff-enabled upload method (as you mentioned in my other thread) make an alternative client impossible to implement efficiently &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@B0F70D28791EB05FA3EA0C3BDDF08EE3/emoticons/1f61e.png" alt=":disappointed_face:" title=":disappointed_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Guess I'm stuck with the official client, it the support guys ever get it working again...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Rate-Limit/m-p/20196#M666</guid>
      <dc:creator>Colin A.3</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-08-04T01:39:15Z</dc:date>
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