How much time should I wait between userTimeline request to make sure I don't get black listed?

BadLadTezza · 2017-02-25T14:05:37.824Z

I’m new to R and using the TwitterAPI, here is my code below, how many seconds should I put into sys.sleep to make sure I don’t make too many requests and get blacklisted.

for(i in 155:nrow(huntsmanRandomUnpro)) { huntsmanRandomUnpro$accessible_tweets[i] <- try(length(userTimeline(user = huntsmanRandomUnpro[i, 2], n = 3200, includeRts = FALSE, retryOnRateLimit = 2000))) Sys.sleep(10) }

andypiper · 2017-02-27T10:38:06.603Z

The rate limit for the user timeline endpoint is 900 requests in 15 minutes for a user auth app.

BadLadTezza · 2017-02-27T21:03:04.018Z

Thanks for your response, do you think 1 second instead of 10 would be enough?