REST API limits

soivenkatesh · 2013-10-21T13:27:54.000Z

i am fetching user status from external systems like below through REST API Call outs (GET) using below url

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json

But i am not sure about limits,my question is
How many api calls are allowed from twitter per day? is there nay hour based limit ? is there any limit on number tweets retrived per day ?

very important to me , quick response really appreciate.

Thanks in advance !

episod · 2013-10-21T14:36:59.000Z

See [node:10066] for documentation on rate limits. Each API method is rate limited separately from each other; most methods tend to allow either 15 requests per 15 minutes or 180 requests per 15 minutes.

soivenkatesh · 2013-10-21T14:48:11.000Z

Thanks for the qucik reply
is there any maximum number limit on the number requests for the day ?

episod · 2013-10-21T14:49:07.000Z

As many as you reasonably need that would also fit within rate limits.

maximeburri · 2015-01-26T11:07:13.981Z

Hi

Before started a long development time, I want to be sure not to misuse trough REST API calls.

I would like that several of my users gets back tweets with a hashtag, during several hours. A process ( or thread ) will be created by users and every 5 seconds, every process fetches tweets (5 second, not to exceed the limit 180 per tokens).

For 4 hours long time, it makes 2’880 calls(appeals) for one process (4[h] * 60[min] * 60[s] / 5[s]). Let us imagine that there is 200 processes, there would be 576’000 calls (200[processes] * 2880[calls]) for 4 hours.

To decrease number of calls, the sleeping time can be increased. Is it reasonable and viable ?

Thanks in advance !

andypiper · 2015-01-26T12:18:20.238Z

maximeburri:

Let us imagine that there is 200 processes

I assume that each of these is a thread using a different set of user OAuth tokens.

This approach sounds reasonable. You’ll hit an API limit fast if you are trying to call Twitter every 5 seconds on the search endpoint.

You should also code to handle 429 errors and adjust accordingly.

maximeburri · 2015-01-26T13:42:02.461Z

Thank you for you quick response.

Each thread using a different set of user OAuth tokens.

Then I conclude that I can make a great deal of calls as far as I don’t exceed the limit for each users OAuth tokens (180 per-user).