I’ve been using the safegraph API to query core places and monthly patterns using batch_lookup and have a question about rate limits

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Hi there! I’ve been using the safegraph API to query core places and monthly patterns using batch_lookup.

I made a minor miscalculation in the Sys.sleep() I wrote into my R script to avoid hitting the published rate limits (which is listed as 100 requests per second for batch, 1000 requests per minute for non-batch https://docs.safegraph.com/reference#places-api-overview-new).

I’ve fixed the sleeps so I definitely won’t violate these limits: 2 second sleep between batch_lookup requests, and a 60 second sleep every 800 total records returned from batch requests.

But for some reason I now can’t make a single request without getting a 429 “Too Many Requests” Error. Should I make a new API key and try again? Am I in rate limit jail for an unknown period of time? Thanks!

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Hey @Sean_Mussenden_Univ_of_Md_College_of_Journalism ! Looping in @vchen on this. We’ll circle back soon!

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oh, i’ll check on that. you shouldnt be hitting that error

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The limit should be removed now

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Thank you! I’ll do my best to avoid hitting rate limit again :slightly_smiling_face:

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Are those rate limits correct, tho, that I shared above?

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1000 non batch per minute, 100 batch per second

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yup, those rate limits are correct