• Fades@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes but then what? When you hit the API limit you’re fucking done… There should be big gaps every time this scenario triggers unless what, they have api keys for each sub or something lol

    As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for those eligible for free access usage of our Data API. The limits are:
    If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute (QPM) per OAuth client id If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 QPM

    QPM limits will be an average over a time window (currently 10 minutes) to support bursting requests.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875092-Reddit-Data-API-Wiki

    so maybe it’s not that bad, depending on what the scheduler looks like but that would slow the entire tool down considerably if they have to wait many minutes each time after hitting a rate limit, which as you say wouldn’t take long with bigger comment sections