Rate Limit Exceeded Error

creepylook · 2018-01-03T13:13:37.482Z

Hi all,

I have been meddling with a spring boot app which I try to crawl some twitter data.
I have been getting rate-limit-exceeded error since yesterday. I asked for a friend to create another app and just pass me the api key and the api secret. And I placed them in my application.properties file just to overcome this situation.
And I am still getting the same exception!.
Is this normal? Or am I fool enough to overlook something?

Guys, any help is appreciated, because I am really done with this rate limits.

Thanks,

andypiper · 2018-01-03T15:35:24.935Z

What API endpoint are you using?

creepylook · 2018-01-03T19:48:50.047Z

It’s GET followers/list

Btw, I’m using Spring Social Twitter, with org.springframework.social.twitter.api
Interface FriendOperations GetFollowers() method.

andypiper · 2018-01-03T23:01:56.144Z

Have you been connecting to the streaming API endpoints at any time? I would not expect this to happen otherwise, unless your code was aggressively connecting to the followers endpoint.

creepylook · 2018-01-04T05:03:47.025Z

Yes, I was successfully connecting to the followers endpoint.

andypiper · 2018-01-04T18:46:55.585Z

How often were you calling the endpoint?

creepylook · 2018-01-04T19:34:15.239Z

I was calling the endpoint for like only 4 or 5 days, but to be honest I was doing it frequently.
I understand the reason behind this rate-limit but it has been more than one day, and I’m not still able to reach the endpoint.