The Movie Database Support
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Can the limit of 40 calls every 10 secs per IP be increased a little bit? either less seconds like 40 calls per 5 secs or more calls like 100 calls every 10 secs.
posted by dcarlesSTAFFMOD on July 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM
Reason for this is that I know you counting that api request are performed on client, making it OK as is difficult only one user can make more than 40 calls in 10 secs if you do your website right. However when you call the apis and cache from the server it makes this limit a big issue. As the IP will be the same for all api calls, so if you have 50 concurrent users there will be lot of 429 errors.
Is it possible to increase that limit or a way for someone in this case to overcome this issue?
Kind Regards,
Daniel Carles
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 3, 2015 at 5:44 PM
Hi Daniel,
The local cache is probably your best way to go. As your cache fills up you'll be making less and less calls. Most people bring the data in house and do it this way. It has the added benefit of letting you build your schema however you need/want as well.