App.net · Rate Limits

Appnet Rate Limits

App.net Stream API rate limits, enforced per access token for authenticated calls and per IP address for unauthenticated calls. Transcribed from the preserved api-spec rate-limits documentation; the service is retired.

Appnet Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for App.net on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Social.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingSocial

Limits

Global (authenticated) token
requests · hour
5000
Affects all authenticated endpoints, even when other limits also apply.
Write (authenticated) token
requests · minute
20
POST/DELETE requests.
Global (unauthenticated) ip
requests · minute
50
Affects all unauthenticated endpoints.

Policies

Multiple limits
A request may be subject to multiple limits; it counts against each, but headers report only the most restrictive applicable limit.
Backoff
On 429, wait the number of seconds in the Retry-After header before retrying.

Sources