The New York Times · Rate Limits

The New York Times Rate Limits

The New York Times Developer Network historically enforced per-app daily quotas and a small per-second limit per registered app, with quotas managed via the developer portal. The developer.nytimes.com FAQ was not reachable from this environment at reconciliation time, so specific current numbers are not transcribed here.

The New York Times Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for The New York Times on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

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

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, News, and Media.

1 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingNewsMedia

Limits

Per-App Quota app
varies
see https://developer.nytimes.com/faq

Policies

Per-App Throttling
Limits are enforced per registered NYT Developer app key; exhausting the daily quota returns 429 until the next rollover.
Quota Increase
Higher limits, including any commercial use, are arranged via the NYT Developer Network contact channels rather than self-serve.

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