Bandcamp · Rate Limits
Bandcamp Rate Limits
Bandcamp does not publicly document specific rate-limit thresholds for its developer APIs. Tokens expire after one hour and partners are expected to reuse tokens within their lifetime. Excessive requests may trigger throttling or account review.
Bandcamp Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Bandcamp on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and minutes.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Music, Marketplace, Indie, Audio, and Sales.
2 Limits
Throttle: 429
MusicMarketplaceIndieAudioSalesMerchRate LimitingQuotasThrottling
Limits
Default application
see provider documentation
Not publicly documented.
Token lifetime application
60
Access tokens expire after one hour.
Policies
Token Reuse
Reuse access tokens within their one-hour lifetime; do not request a new token per call.
Backoff Strategy
On throttling, apply exponential backoff with jitter and contact Bandcamp partner support if sustained.
Sources
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.