DBnomics · Rate Limits

Dbnomics Rate Limits

DBnomics does not publish numeric rate limits for its public Web API. The API requires no authentication or API key, so there is no per-account quota; access is anonymous and free. Result-set size is governed by limit/offset pagination on list endpoints (providers, datasets, search, series) rather than by request-rate caps. Series responses default to a limit of 1000 series per request. As a community-funded public good, heavy bulk consumers are expected to paginate politely and prefer the official Python/R clients or bulk downloads over hammering the API.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, items, and series.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Economic Indicators, Open Data, Statistics, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Economic IndicatorsOpen DataStatisticsRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

API Request Rate anonymous
requests
not published
No numeric request-rate limit is documented; access is unauthenticated.
List Pagination request
items
limit/offset per endpoint
Providers, datasets, search, and series list endpoints page with limit and offset parameters.
Series Per Request request
series
1000 (default)
Series endpoints default to limit=1000 series per response; paginate with offset for more.

Policies

Anonymous Access
No API key or account exists, so limits cannot be raised per customer; all consumers share the public infrastructure.
Polite Pagination
Iterate with limit/offset and cache responses; prefer the official Python/R clients or bulk downloads for large extractions.
Self-Host Escape Hatch
The full platform is open source on git.nomics.world; self-hosting removes any shared-infrastructure constraint.

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