[Question] Rate limit clarification

[swamp-agr]

[Question] Rate limit clarification

Question found of: February 10th, 2022

Endpoint(s):

• GET /oauth/token
• GET /tracks
• GET /tracks/{track_id}/streams

Scope(s):

• Quota and/or rate limit

Questions:

• Is our understanding correct that /tracks requests do not affect the quota (In result there might be tracks with stream_url properties that indirectly pointed out to /tracks/:id/stream)?
• Is our understanding correct that /tracks/:id/streams requests (with s at the end) do affect the quota?
• Or does refreshing access_token for the subsequent API requests affect quota?

History

• We tried to contact Soundcloud support via email.
• Automatic reply suggested to contact Support via chat-bot.
• No 1879895 assigned to the request via Support system.
• According to No 1879895, there is no dedicated API Support team. Therefore, we were advised to look at StackOverflow, otherwise to create issue here.
• The only one related topic on StackOverflow does not contain any specific details that could answer our questions.
• Since there were no specific information about endpoints on StackOverflow I am asking here.
• If it is not an appropriate place to ask please let us know where we can get that information.

[rahul-sc]

Heya. There are 3 rate-limits in effect at the moment on the API.

1. Rate-Limit for generating tokens using client_credentials grant
2. Rate-Limit when using search endpoints i.e., /tracks /users /playlists
3. Rate-Limit when using playback i.e., /streams or /stream

Related Resources https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/rate-limits#global-limit https://github.com/soundcloud/api/releases/tag/2021-09-07 https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/explorer/open-api#/search

[swamp-agr]

Hi @rahul-sc,

Thank you for information!

I read the content of these three links you provided. Right now it's clear that:

1. there're three different limits.
2. /oauth/token request is limited to 50 requests per 12h window.
3. /streams or /stream are limited with 15K requests per 24h window.

And it's not clear what is the rate limit for /tracks, /users and /playlists requests.

Is it also 15K or something else?

[rahul-sc]

Ah! You're right. This is not documented!

For searching we limit it to 30K per 1h

[swamp-agr]

Thanks for providing that information. 👍 I am closing the issue since all questions have been solved. Thank you and a have nice rest of the day! 😃