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instagram-api
Alfons Hubertus
Alfons Hubertus

Reputation: 91

instagram api rate limit clarification

We make GET requests to the /users/self/media/recent and /media/media-id/comments endpoints. For this we use user authentication with access_token.

According to the rate limit documentation of instagram we should have 5000 requests / access_token / hour available.

logging the number of our requests on average we do about 600 - 800 requests for a user of us but still receive an api limit reached error in the instagram response. not only that but according to the error we do ~70K request/hour

You have exceeded the maximum number of requests per hour. You have performed a total of 68100 requests in the last hour. Our general maximum limit is set at 5000 requests per hour.

Am I missing something? Only a few customers of us are affected by this problem.

Are the limits per user global and all apps the user uses have to share the 5000 requests / hour? That is the only explanation I can come up with but found no documentation of this behavior.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1157

Answers (1)

krisrak
krisrak

Reputation: 12952

Post the code, may be you are doing something wrong and its making multiple calls.

The API response header shows how many remaining calls after each API call:

x-ratelimit-limit:5000
x-ratelimit-remaining:4998

check this value after each call from your code and analyze.

Upvotes: 1

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