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Re: Dropbox API rate limits

Dropbox API rate limits

Sophia S.3
New member | Level 1

Hi,

I am hitting dropbox API rate limit and I can see 429 status code, I know that dropbox rate limit is per user basis.

I just wanted to know the number, How many API calls are allowed per user per day.

Thanks,

Murali

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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

Are you using /sharing/get_folder_metadata to get information on each shared folder? If so, you can instead use /sharing/list_folders[/continue] to list them all more efficiently.

Sophia S.3
New member | Level 1

Thanks Gregory,
This should help my use case, will check that.

Chris Chris
Explorer | Level 3

Hello,

I am also hitting the rate limit. My application searches for zip files in a folder and extracts them. They contain thousand of tiny files which are uploaded one by one. This takes some hours with fast internet. Any ideas? Should I wait some time between the uploads or zip files? How long?

 

That is the error message:
INFO:dropbox:Request to files/upload
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://content.dropboxapi.com:443 "POST /2/files/upload HTTP/1.1" 429 None
INFO:dropbox:Ratelimit: Retrying in 15.0 seconds.

 

Kind Regards,

Chris

Chris Chris
Explorer | Level 3

Found a solution here in section File Uploads:

https://developers.dropbox.com/dbx-performance-guide

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