Rate limit work arounds?

Zach Smith

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Apr 15, 2021, 1:52:37 PM4/15/21

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I have an app built with Untappd's public API and I am getting all the checkins for an authenticated user. This gives me 100 calls at 50 checkins per call so any user over 5000 checkins will be rate limited. Anyone have any idea how to get around it? Currently I just try and handle the error gracefully but it stops my app from working for large power users

Greg Fiumara

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Apr 15, 2021, 2:07:45 PM4/15/21

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Hi Zach,

There's no getting around rate limits. If you want all the checkins,
keep track of the last batch of checkins you received and start from
there when you have more API calls available.

-Greg

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Zach Smith

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Apr 15, 2021, 2:24:25 PM4/15/21

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Thanks for the reply! Currently I just make the calls and when I hit that limit take what I have and work with it. Thankfully I think more people have under 5,000 checkins than over.

James Herberson

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Apr 15, 2021, 2:36:28 PM4/15/21

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I agree it would be nice to be able to extend the rate limit. I'm kind of surprised there's not even a paid 'business-level' tier that would allow more requests per hour.

Zach Smith

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Apr 15, 2021, 2:46:59 PM4/15/21

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With an authenticated user you do get a lot of calls per user but when trying to grab a lot of data from users with tons of checkins it dries up fast. I would support a feature like that!

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