Apple Music Rate Limits
Apple Music API enforces rate limits but Apple does not publish exact thresholds. Limits are applied per developer token (team) and per Music User Token. The API returns HTTP 429 Too Many Requests when limits are exceeded; clients should back off and retry.
Apple Music Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Apple Music on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Music, Streaming, Apple, MusicKit, and Rate Limiting.
Limits
Policies
Sources
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/handling_requests_and_responses
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