Radio Browser · Rate Limits

Radio Browser Rate Limits

Documented rate limits for the Radio Browser community API. Radio Browser does not publish a general per-IP request quota for read endpoints, but it enforces per-interaction throttles on click counting and voting, and operators of individual mirrors may apply their own throttles. Clients are required to send a descriptive User-Agent header (appname/appversion) so the maintainer can reach them if a client is misbehaving.

Radio Browser Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Radio Browser on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the community tier, measuring votes_per_station_per_ip, clicks_per_station_per_ip, and requests_per_minute.

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter response header, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Music, Open Data, Community, Rate Limiting, and Throttling.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-28.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-28 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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MusicOpen DataCommunityRate LimitingThrottling

Limits

Vote Throttle ip+station
votes_per_station_per_ip · 10_minutes
1
Click Throttle ip+station
clicks_per_station_per_ip · day
1
Mirror Operator Discretion ip
requests_per_minute · minute

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