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 โ€” 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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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

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 Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
Star WarsOpen SourcePublic APIRate Limiting

Limits

Polite-Use Convention (Undocumented) ip
requests_per_minute ยท 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.