Add API rate limit support

bmakuh / quip-mass-exporter

A tool to export all your documents at once from Quip app

MIT License

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Add API rate limit support #5

Open davidchchang opened 5 years ago

davidchchang commented 5 years ago

This has been a very useful tool for exporting a small number of Quip documents, but I found if you have a significant number of folders and subfolders, I would frequently be throttled by the Quip platform. It would be ideal if rate limiting was baked in (they seem to rate limit at around 50 calls per minute, but this may vary per account) so requests would not fail with a 503.

sonnenkern commented 5 years ago

Please, look at this package: https://github.com/sonnenkern/quip-export I've succsessfully solved the HTTP 503 "Over Rate Limit" problem. If the application receives the 503-answer from API, the workflow just wait, and repeat the query, wenn it is possible. The data is not being lost.