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API Limits using /2/files/download
Hello, I'm developing a single-user app (1 access token), via the Python AP I, to share many files (~200K totally approx 1TB) from a Business account. As such, the plan is to use Dropbox.file...
1. The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but we don't have any specific numbers documented, so I can't say off hand if you would or wouldn't hit the limits. Also note that not all 429s and 503s indicate explicit rate limiting, but in any case that you get a 429 or 503 the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not.
2. That's correct, the 200 GB traffic limit is for shared link traffic, not authenticated API traffic.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff1. The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but we don't have any specific numbers documented, so I can't say off hand if you would or wouldn't hit the limits. Also note that not all 429s and 503s indicate explicit rate limiting, but in any case that you get a 429 or 503 the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not.
2. That's correct, the 200 GB traffic limit is for shared link traffic, not authenticated API traffic.
Great, thanks Greg!
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