API Rate Limit

[Michael McCormack]

I am a fellow ham sourcing data from your API as part of a proof of concept for a tactical data visualization application. While testing, I am already hitting the rate limit on your api. I will stand up my own server if I decide to release a production version, but I need something simple for the POC. Would you be willing to extend the rate limit for testing? If not, may I purchase additional api credits? My need is for about 5k calls/day. 

Thank you, sir!

V/c

Michael McCormack

KD2RED

[Heikki Hannikainen]

Currently the software does not have a feature for per-client API rate
limit adjustments, so I'd have to make that first. Currently I'm quite
busy with improvements to the iOS app, and that development effort will
serve a larger (paying) user base, so it has higher priority than this.

Note that you can fetch multiple targets with a single call (subtitle
"Querying multiple targets using a single request" at
https://aprs.fi/page/api), and the rate limit is for the number of calls,
not for the number of targets fetched.

If you'll need data on a more consistent basis, you should probably
connect directly to APRS-IS, parse the data stream and insert it into a
database of your own.

- Hessu