https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Huge-Discrepancy-Between-Retry-After-and-Rate-Limit-Reset/m-p/6814550#M17252 <P>Hey Spotify team/community,<BR /><BR />I'm working on a Discord bot that tracks new music releases for users from artists they follow or listen to frequently.<BR />Been running into some weird rate limiting issues lately that I can't figure out.<BR />My bot got rate limited for the first time today and I noticed something strange in the response headers.<BR />The Retry-After header said 71943 seconds (that's almost 20 hours!), but the X-RateLimit-Reset header indicated the limit would reset in just 58 minutes.<BR /><BR />This is super confusing.<BR />Which value should I actually respect? Is there a bug in one of these headers or are they meant to represent different things?<BR /><BR />Some context on how I'm using the API:<BR />- I'm calling various endpoints like /me/following, /me/top/artists, and /artists/{id}/albums<BR />- The bot checks for new releases about once per hour for artists that users follow<BR />- I've implemented proper backoff strategies and caching<BR />- When rate limited, I pause requests and wait for the specified time before retrying<BR /><BR />This happened specifically when calling: /artists/1C3qb5czyoPMhiTRFM86EQ/albums?include_groups=album,single,compilation&amp;limit=20<BR />The status was 429 with a Retry-After of 71943 seconds, which seems excessively long compared to the reset time.<BR /><BR />Any insights on what's happening here would be really helpful.<BR />Thanks!</P> Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:10:46 GMT ImYuma 2025-03-09T23:10:46Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Huge-Discrepancy-Between-Retry-After-and-Rate-Limit-Reset/m-p/6814550#M17252 <P>Hey Spotify team/community,<BR /><BR />I'm working on a Discord bot that tracks new music releases for users from artists they follow or listen to frequently.<BR />Been running into some weird rate limiting issues lately that I can't figure out.<BR />My bot got rate limited for the first time today and I noticed something strange in the response headers.<BR />The Retry-After header said 71943 seconds (that's almost 20 hours!), but the X-RateLimit-Reset header indicated the limit would reset in just 58 minutes.<BR /><BR />This is super confusing.<BR />Which value should I actually respect? Is there a bug in one of these headers or are they meant to represent different things?<BR /><BR />Some context on how I'm using the API:<BR />- I'm calling various endpoints like /me/following, /me/top/artists, and /artists/{id}/albums<BR />- The bot checks for new releases about once per hour for artists that users follow<BR />- I've implemented proper backoff strategies and caching<BR />- When rate limited, I pause requests and wait for the specified time before retrying<BR /><BR />This happened specifically when calling: /artists/1C3qb5czyoPMhiTRFM86EQ/albums?include_groups=album,single,compilation&amp;limit=20<BR />The status was 429 with a Retry-After of 71943 seconds, which seems excessively long compared to the reset time.<BR /><BR />Any insights on what's happening here would be really helpful.<BR />Thanks!</P> Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:10:46 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Huge-Discrepancy-Between-Retry-After-and-Rate-Limit-Reset/m-p/6814550#M17252 ImYuma 2025-03-09T23:10:46Z