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# Rate Limiting

## Overall request limits

The API is rate-limited to 150 requests every 60 seconds. All requests count towards the total. Every request processed by the API returns rate limiting information in the HTTP headers.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**: Rate limiting is based on both username and ip address. Therefore a single username is limited to 150 requests every 60 seconds, as is a single IP address.
{% endhint %}

## Login request limits

Login requests are rate-limited to **10 requests every 60 seconds**. All requests count towards the total.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**: The IP and username of every statistics request made will count towards these limits.
{% endhint %}

## Statistics request limits

Statistics requests are rate limited to 30 requests per minute for each IP address and 25 requests per minute for each username.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**: The IP and username of every statistics request made will count towards these limits.
{% endhint %}

For example, if you log in with your username on a single computer and make 25 statistics requests, the next one you make will fail. However, you could change to a different username and make 5 more statistics requests, before hitting the IP address limit.

## Examples

### Rate Limiting - Example 1

```bash
$ curl -i https://api.example.com/v2/statistics/a/date
```

```json
{
  "HTTP/1.1": "200 OK",
  "Date": "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:57:32 GMT",
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
  "X-Rate-Limit-Limit": 25,
  "X-Rate-Limit-Remaining": 44,
  "X-Rate-Limit-Reset": 27
}
```

When the rate limit is exceeded a *429 Too Many Requests* HTTP error will be thrown by any subsequent requests until the rate limit is reset. As with a normal request the rate limiting information will be available in the HTTP headers.

### Rate Limiting - Example 2 (Limit Exceeded)

```bash
$ curl -i https://api.example.com/v2/statistics/a/date
```

```json
{
  "HTTP/1.1": "429 Too Many Requests",
  "Date": "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:04:35 GMT",
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
  "X-Rate-Limit-Limit": 25,
  "X-Rate-Limit-Remaining": 0,
  "X-Rate-Limit-Reset": 12
}
```


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