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Scalablepress Rate Limits

Scalable Press does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for its REST API in the public documentation. Practical throughput is governed by ordinary REST request handling and by fulfillment capacity rather than a documented per-minute request cap. Order status is read by polling the v3 Event API, which should be requested on a sensible interval rather than tight loops.

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

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

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

Tagged areas include Print on Demand, Fulfillment, Custom Printing, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Print on DemandFulfillmentCustom PrintingRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

REST API Requests account
requests
not published
No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the v2/v3 REST API.
Event Polling account
requests
not published
Order/item status is read by polling GET /v3/event; poll on a sensible interval.
Order Throughput account
orders
fulfillment-bound
Effective order throughput is bound by production/fulfillment capacity, not a documented API cap.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
Polling Cadence
Poll the v3 Event API at a reasonable interval rather than in tight loops to retrieve order and item status.

Sources