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Errors

rate_limit_exceeded

Requests are arriving too quickly on this credential.

Status

HTTP 429, title Rate limit exceeded. One of the limits errors. Branch on code, never on the status or the prose.

Common causes

  • More than the per-key limit of 60 requests per minute, free reads included.

What to do

Too many requests on this credential. Wait the seconds in Retry-After and retry.

Example

The body arrives as application/problem+json. Most responses add detail about the occurrence, and some add fields of their own.

{
  "type": "https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/errors/rate_limit_exceeded",
  "title": "Rate limit exceeded",
  "status": 429,
  "code": "rate_limit_exceeded"
}