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Api Rate limit

Api Rate limit

Dinesh Kannan
Explorer | Level 3

What is the API rate limit for dropbox version 5.0.2.

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Dinesh K
Explorer | Level 3

I want to know what is the API rate limit for dropbox version 5.0.2

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but we don't have specific rate numbers documented. 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.

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