#1

Hi,
The current limit of retrieving the friend list of a public twitter account is 15 req / 15 min.
I was trying to find, unsuccessfully, a way to increase this rate limit by paying money.
I saw ways to pay and increase rate limit over other API methods, but not this one.
Has anyone experienced with this before and found a resolution?
Thanks

#2

This is not possible.

A way to make more calls however, is to make calls with User Auth, and then App only auth too, effectively doubling the quota as the rate limit is separate. Also make sure you are always requesting the max number of results per page (5000 in v1.1 api.get_friend_ids if this is tweepy, or 1000 in v2) to make the most of the calls.

#3

Thank you for the reply.
I find it strange how it’s super scalable to pay for other api calls but this one.
I don’t fully understand the business logic behind it.
I will try to use the user auth method you suggested.

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