API limit within a short time

[Jason]

When I was testing the app, sometimes I fetched the food multiple times within seconds. Then I can't fetch food anymore because of json parsing error. I need to wait for a few seconds, then I can fetch the food again.

Does the API has a limit within a certain amount of time? Or is it my code issue?

[seba...@fatsecret.com]

Hi Jason,
Thanks for reaching out. There is no such limit as part of the API i.e. you can make thousands of queries every second. Latency will be around 50-100ms. It sounds like there is a limitation in your code.

Kind regards,
The fatsecret Platform API Team

[Jason]

Thank you. I got this error. {"code": 12, "message": "User is performing too many actions: please try again later" } What does this mean?

[seba...@fatsecret.com]

It seems you hit the daily limit for the free Basic account of 5,000/calls per day.

We provide unlimited API calls for start-ups and non-profits.

Please get in touch with our API team and upgrade to the Premier Free account

https://platform.fatsecret.com/contact