Is there a way to go above the 5000 requests per hour for the userless venue api?
From the documentation at FourSquare;
The platform offers all of this without requiring end user
authentication and is available at high rate limits (5,000 requests
per hour, with more available on request by email to
api#foursquare.com).
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While implementing the DocuSign we are getting The maximum number of hourly API invocations has been exceeded error message sometimes this is because of the API call rate exceed per 1 hour. Anyone have any idea how to increase the API call rate per account from 1000 to 5000?
You need to contact your DocuSign's Account Manager with a valid usecase why you need the API limit to be increased to 5000. As a defensive check you should always read the header in the API response, DocuSign provide the data as whats your call limit, how many calls are remaining and what is next schedule counter reset for you. By reading these header values, you can make your application pause for sometime so that you don't hit threshold limit and handle the limit scenario properly.
Along with your DocuSign Account Manager, you can contact support#docusign.com also.
Instagram API has limit for 5000 calls per hour. Some instagram analytics services (for example https://smartmetrics.co ) allow to analyze multiple accounts at same time. I've analyzed multiple accounts with total followers 200k and smartmetrics done it with 3 hours and results looks true. How can it be possible? Is any way to increase limit for API calls?
it depends on what API they using to analyze, you can get up to 50 followers data with one API call, so 200K followers will take 4000 API calls and can be done with the one hour.
If they are analyzing more details and posts of individual follower, then they have to make an API call for every follower.
Instagram has default API limits for API calls, for sandbox users its 500 and live users its 5000 / hour for an access-token.
Like pictaram.com and picbear.com and other apps, which don't sign in users for getting access token from Instagram, provides services that you can pull data unlimited, for example, in pictaram I search for a hashtag media, normally if we assume that site has own access token which has 5000 calls for an hour can provide 100k images(because one call for tags recent media responses with 20 pictures and next page URL) so you can get max 100k images with 1 access token if you use it for just a tag search but I could manage to get more than 100k media for a tag and the site continued to work like a charm.
How can these sites provides all data without hitting the API limits? They are acting just like Instagram itself.
We deliver social local media products which listen to several different hashtags on Instagram, among others. I'm very much in fear of hitting their API limits, and can't find how to handle many large projects with an Instagram API account.
Right now, I have 5 different clients on Instagram (the maximum), but the problem is if I have 40 projects with 40 separate hashtags each then that is 1600 different hashtags to listen to. If I check each hashtag for new updates every 5 minutes, at 1 API request per hashtag I would hit the hourly limit of the API extremely fast.
How does Instagram want one to handle this sort of thing?
Instagram's recommendation is to authenticate users and use the OAuth per endpoint, since the rate limit for authenticated calls scales as you grow the amount of people using your app.
Why or how it will scale is, the Rate Limit for Authenticated users is per hour per token. So if you have 50 authenticated users, you can make 50 x 5000 = 250,000 API calls before you hit the limit.
From their API Limits Documentation Page:
Is there an API to retrieve Instagram images based on a search query, and is there any limit to calling this API?
You have 2 options for searching Instagram using the API:
Search by tag (single tag only):
https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/tags/#get_tags_search
Search media in a given location:
http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/media/#get_media_search
The API will limit you to 5000 requests per hour for a single Client_ID or 5000 requests per hour for individual Access_Tokens which require the user to be authenticated. You can also only retrieve around 20-30 images per request without because of pagination.
Hope that helps!
First, register as a developer.
Then use this url:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/YOURTAG/media/recent?access_token=YOURACCESSTOKEN
after replace with your access token and your search term. it's 30 calls/hr max, so regulate : )