Dropbox API rate limits

[Sophia S.3]

Hi,

I am hitting dropbox API rate limit and I can see 429 status code, I know that dropbox rate limit is per user basis.

I just wanted to know the number, How many API calls are allowed per user per day.

Thanks,

Murali

[Greg-DB]

Are you using /sharing/get_folder_metadata to get information on each shared folder? If so, you can instead use /sharing/list_folders[/continue] to list them all more efficiently.

[Sophia S.3]

Thanks Gregory,
This should help my use case, will check that.

[Chris Chris]

Hello,

I am also hitting the rate limit. My application searches for zip files in a folder and extracts them. They contain thousand of tiny files which are uploaded one by one. This takes some hours with fast internet. Any ideas? Should I wait some time between the uploads or zip files? How long?

That is the error message:
INFO:dropbox:Request to files/upload
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://content.dropboxapi.com:443 "POST /2/files/upload HTTP/1.1" 429 None
INFO:dropbox:Ratelimit: Retrying in 15.0 seconds.

Kind Regards,

Chris

[Chris Chris]

Found a solution here in section File Uploads:

https://developers.dropbox.com/dbx-performance-guide