https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Rate-Limiting-Changed/m-p/5041817#M1208 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>Canada</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>PC</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Win10</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>I'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (<A href="https://github.com/dvx/lofi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/dvx/lofi/</A>) where the API is polled every second. We use the response to set the track progress, playback status, volume level, cover art, track info, etc.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Since somewhere around noon EDT the app is returning a lot more 429 than I previously experienced (see attached image). I first noticed when the error occurred every 30 seconds and the api returned a retry-after of &gt;10 seconds. Now it seems the error occurs every minute with a retry-after of 1 second. Our code always adds one second to the retry after to ensure that we're not abusing the API.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is 1 request/second an extreme scenario? The API seemed to be ok with that up til now.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotify_api_429.png" style="width: 646px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/121309i68BAB4432757C7BE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotify_api_429.png" alt="spotify_api_429.png" /></span></P> Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:34:22 GMT Morgrog 2020-09-25T18:34:22Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Rate-Limiting-Changed/m-p/5041817#M1208 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>Canada</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>PC</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Win10</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>I'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (<A href="https://github.com/dvx/lofi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/dvx/lofi/</A>) where the API is polled every second. We use the response to set the track progress, playback status, volume level, cover art, track info, etc.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Since somewhere around noon EDT the app is returning a lot more 429 than I previously experienced (see attached image). I first noticed when the error occurred every 30 seconds and the api returned a retry-after of &gt;10 seconds. Now it seems the error occurs every minute with a retry-after of 1 second. Our code always adds one second to the retry after to ensure that we're not abusing the API.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is 1 request/second an extreme scenario? The API seemed to be ok with that up til now.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotify_api_429.png" style="width: 646px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/121309i68BAB4432757C7BE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotify_api_429.png" alt="spotify_api_429.png" /></span></P> Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:34:22 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Rate-Limiting-Changed/m-p/5041817#M1208 Morgrog 2020-09-25T18:34:22Z