SWAPI - Star Wars API · Rate Limits

Swapi Rate Limits

SWAPI does not publish documented hard rate limits. The swapi.dev and swapi.tech mirrors are community-funded, so consumers are asked to be polite — cache aggressively, avoid tight scraping loops, and respect 429 / 503 responses if they ever surface. This file captures the polite-use convention, not a contractual limit.

Swapi Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for SWAPI - Star Wars API on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, across the free tier, measuring requests_per_minute.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, 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, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Star Wars, Open Source, Public API, and Rate Limiting.

1 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-29.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-29 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Star WarsOpen SourcePublic APIRate Limiting

Limits

Polite-Use Convention (Undocumented) ip
requests_per_minute · minute
No documented numeric limit. Community guidance is to cache responses (the dataset is effectively static) and avoid sustained traffic above a few requests per second.

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