Questions tagged [rate-limiting]
Activities such as searching, voting, editing your own posts, or suggesting edits are rate-limited on Stack Exchange sites. These restrictions generally exist to prevent abuse.
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Global Flag Summary userscript is no longer working due to rate-limiting changes
When running the Global Flag Summary userscript, 57 out of the 244 sites it calls to were successful, and the rest produced error status codes. Most produced 404 status codes, but towards the end of ...
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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Update October 29th, 2024
Our rate-limit for automated traffic coming from AWS is enabled, and is operating as expected.
Update October 21st, 2024
Our rate-limit for automated traffic coming from GCP ...
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Atom feed ratelimiting prevents feeds from being used
In a different location, Slate asked me to move this question from Meta Stack Overflow here and elaborate on the details.
The current rate limiting on the network prevents feeds from being useful in ...
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Why am I getting “Too Many Requests” when I haven’t gone to SE in 12 hours?
For some reason, when I tried to access Stack Exchange today, it said “Too many requests”. That was only thing displayed. However, I hadn’t visited the site at all in 12 hours, and I have never run ...
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Rate limit for posting comments seems to not be enforced
According to The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide creation of comments is limited to 3 per 30 seconds.
However, today I saw a user seemingly post a lot more comments than that limitation suggests. Since I ...
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Out-of-date screenshot on "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" Help Center page
The beginning of the Help Center page "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" currently looks like this:
Could that screenshot be updated? It's......
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Unable to translate a comment on user Rate Limit History
The autogenerated comment on user Rate Limit History (История ограничения рейтинга) like the following one is not ready to translation:
User Id {id} is blocked from asking questions for {days} days ...
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Temporarily reduce the 5-second rate limit on flagging posts as spam, to allow for quicker flagging on sites overrun with spam
SmokeDetector is currently disabled due to the moderation strike. This means that some specific sites are overrun with spam, and when I go through and flag each of those spam posts, I keep running ...
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The rate limiting system for posts is on strike; can it please be made to work?
Ten posts in eight minutes. I don't see a reason why anyone should be posting this fast, especially not a brand new user. This is only the most recent example, not the one that's posted the most:
It ...
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What does this mean? "If you attempt to circumvent these restrictions, you...put the use of the site by your co-workers in serious jeopardy. "
In the Help Center, under 'Why have I been limited to one question per week?', there's a section: 'Can I request that this block be lifted, or to allow more questions per week?'. The second half of it ...
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WWW rate limit via Skyhigh (formerly McAfee?) Web Gateway (SaaS web gateway)
I've been getting intermittent HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) responses from https://stackoverflow.com today, and I think I've tracked it down to our company network routing outbound web traffic through ...
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Too many requests error for my newly purchased VPS
I know this has been discussed before and there's an email address to address them issue, but it's been around 10 days since I sent email to [email protected], but I didn't get any replies.
The ...
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Why does the "too many requests" error message no longer have error info?
After a long while, I finally managed to get a "Too many requests" error message in my regular course of browsing the site.
However, this message used to include a lot of error info, which ...
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GET requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2 methods return HTTP 400 "Violation of backoff parameter" without previously warning to back off
We have the following logic to make GET requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2:
private async get(
apiMethod: string, // can be 'users', 'tags', 'info', or 'questions'
url: string, // ...
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How long am I going to be rate-limited for "too many requests"?
From Update on the ongoing DDoS attacks and blocking Tor exit nodes
My IP address was banned on March 13. But I wasn't using Tor (and I'm not a Tor node.)...
Of course, my first reaction was to sent ...
