Guardian Rate Limits
The Guardian Content API enforces rate limits per developer API key. The free developer tier allows up to 12 requests per second and 5,000 requests per day. Commercial keys have higher or negotiated limits. Exceeding limits results in API errors and temporary blocking.
Guardian Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for The Guardian on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_day.
The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, News, and Media.
Limits
Policies
Sources
- https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/
- https://groups.google.com/g/guardian-api-talk/c/X-v_2f_xwfI
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