New rate-limits for itemordershistogram?

[woctezuma]

There is a recent issue with rate-limits on the Steam Market.

[sueskind]

As said in the posted screenshot, there is very little discussion about this rate limit increase, but it seems like you found a workaround.

Can you tell me how you got around this limit? Is this limit (10 requests/h) the same when being logged in/out?

[woctezuma]

I have not run the script in a while, so I cannot say for sure what works nowadays. However, by looking at the history of this issue, keeping the cookies updated, especially the sessionid value, should be sufficient.

[sueskind]

Thanks for the reply, it seems that the limits are as follows:

When logged out:

• 10-25 requests allowed, then rate limit is hit

When logged in:

• Infinite requests for the same nameid allowed
• 10 requests for different nameids allowed until rate limit is hit.

The rate limit seems to be a longer "cooldown" than 1h in both cases.

It looks like a tradeoff they came up with at Valve to limit scraping but not interfere too much with normal usage.

Edit: The limit seems to be 10 requests per 2 hours when being logged in.

[woctezuma]

Thank you! That is interesting!

Public information about rate limits are hard to find, so it is nice to read about the results of your experiments! ❤️