API rate limits

[Jon Wade]

Hey there - I've built an analysis app (http://jonwade.digital/hosted-projects/guardian-api) on the back of your API as part of a project I am doing for a coding academy. It's working great, but I upped the times the API is being polled (trying to get back more articles) and now it seems I'm rate limited and getting a status 429 back from the server. What is the API poll limit per day? Is it possible to increase it for this project? If I know what the limit is, I can write some logic into the app to ensure it doesn't exceed that amount per period. Let me know (and hope you like the app!!). JW

[Clinton Yeboah]

Hi John, if you are looking for the Guardian API rate limit, this is it:

Developer:  Not more than 12 calls per second, not more than 5000 calls per day -- FREE

Commercial: According to your plan!

according to this link:  http://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/

And according to another link here: you can ask for some more limit if you contact TheGuardian and you are able to convince them: http://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/

Good luck bro.