topic Re: Rate Limit 429 in Spotify for Developers

Rate Limit 429

barbaraalp — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:30:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am making requests to the following endpoint:

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recently-played

And I am receiving a 429 error. The documentation only mentions that there is a rate limit in a 30s window (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/rate-limits), but it does not specify the exact limit. Additionally, I would like to know if there are other limits, such as daily or per second limits.

I have throttled the requests, waiting 30s after every 80 requests, and then continuing to make more. However, even this has not been enough. Since I am sending requests in parallel, I would like to know if this could be a problem. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Re: Rate Limit 429

barbaraalp — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:43:15 GMT

Oops! The correct endpoint is: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search

Re: Rate Limit 429

stefanobras — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:04:43 GMT

I'm currently suffering from 429 errors too. But the weird thing for me is that my app was working and suddenly a request that worked just fine started getting 429 without explanation like I've been blocked by the api or something.

Did something like that happened to you too? if It never work from the start maybe you're just doing something wrong.

Re: Rate Limit 429

barbaraalp — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:11:44 GMT

Yes, that's exactly what happens. My requests work fine for about 3 hours, and then they start receiving 429 errors without explanation. It feels like I've been blocked by the API. This is why I suspected there might be a daily limit.

Re: Rate Limit 429

stefanobras — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:24:12 GMT

Why not just let us know if we're actually blocked? it can end up with people changing and ruining their perfectly fine codes and potentially make developers just give up on their apps.

Re: Rate Limit 429

stefanobras — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:35:00 GMT

The weird thing is is that only a certain request in my app is getting 429'd and the rest work just fine so... am I blocked or not?

Don't know if something similar happens to you, good luck.