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[DEPRECATED] An open API server, data import tools, and sample apps to help small businesses search for opportunities to work with the U.S. government.
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API rate limits in documentation is incorrect #172

Closed GUI closed 9 years ago

GUI commented 9 years ago

Someone contacted us via api.data.gov about rate limit issues with the FBOpen API. I noticed in #169 you added some links to the api.data.gov rate limit docs, but these docs indicate the default rate limit of 1,000 per hour. FBOpen is actually rate limited differently than these defaults (10,000 per day). This pull request adds a little blurb about the FBOpen-specific default daily rate limit.

I'm also not sure if you wanted to document your per-second rate limit, so I left it off the pull request, but that might be useful, since I can imagine people hitting that too.

And feel free to continue linking off to api.data.gov's docs if those are still useful, but if you think it's more confusing, then you're also welcome to lift whatever pieces of rate limit information seem useful and integrate them directly into your own docs.

arowla commented 9 years ago

Thanks! Since I migrated our docs off of Github pages (and the gh-pages branch) onto 18F Pages (and the 18f-pages branch), I went ahead and manually merged your PR into 18f-pages.