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Shared links inheritance behavior in Team Space model
Hi, I am working on getting the shared links of a file or a folder along with it's parent's shared links with API list_shared_links. However, I got different response from Team Space and Team Fo...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffmikechiu It looks like you're hitting the rate limiting system; as Здравко noted you can check the response body for the error message. Please try again after the delay and let us know if you're still seeing this issue.
Здравко Greg-DB It works now and sorry for not paste the result.
The result was too_many_requests.
{
"error_summary": "too_many_requests/..",
"error": {
"reason": {
".tag": "too_many_requests"
},
"retry_after": 10
}
}
And actually I continued getting the 429 retry-after:10 at that moment and just wondering what the exact ratelimit for APIs that are not upload/download related since there's no exact document for this? Thanks!
mikechiu wrote:... what the exact ratelimit for APIs that are not upload/download related since there's no exact document for this? ...
Most API calls (not necessary upload/download type) deal in some way with account content. To avoid a mess as result of simultaneous access (race condition), all requests are strictly serialized while waiting for every namespace lock gaining. When in lock tail are too many waiting requests some of them get "rate limit", so the "size" of this "tail" be kept in control (as far as possible). That's it.
To minimize probability for rate limiting, try decrease total number of locking calls and whenever possible use batch version of calls that have such variants. Don't try speed up your code using too many different threads calls, since this can lead to excessive load that results in rate limitings! For some other hints take a look here.
Hope it's a bit more clear.
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