Facebook's API doc says you can only make 200 share count requests per app-user every hour (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/advanced/rate-limiting) but I just made 200K share count requests in less than 60 minutes and I didn't get any rate limiting header. I want to see the X-App-Usage HTTP header to code something in order to handle it. Do you know if Facebook is really rate limiting share count requests?
In addition, the Application Rate Limiting Chart is always showing nothing:
Thanks for reading!
On Facebook's documentation for Rate Limiting on the Graph API (shortcut to App-Level limits), I found this little note:
Caveats:
Not all API calls are subject to rate limits, so the number of calls you make may not match what you see in the rate limit tool.
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Is there a fix number for REST Calls towards Dropbox like 1000 requests per Day etc.
I cant find any Information on the Dropbox site.
Thank you!
The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but there aren't any specific numbers documented. The limits operate on a per-user basis.
Also note that not all 429s and 503s indicate rate limiting, but in any case that you get a 429 or 503 the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not.
So I'm struggling to find where this is documented (if at all), but I'm getting the following error message when requesting data from the FB GraphAPI.
"Please reduce the amount of data you're asking for, then retry your request"
The call I'm making is:
/v2.3/user1/posts?fields=object_id&limit=100
If I change it to:
/v2.3/user2/posts?fields=object_id&limit=100
It returns 100 items.
Why would it work for one user, and not the other?
Both requests are authenticated via an access token (not belonging to either user) and I get the same error whether running it from my code, or the Facebook Graph API console of developers.facebook.com
The response from CBroe is correct. Facebook returns this error if it finds that too many internal resources are needed to respond to your request.
Therefore you have to do what the response says: limit it.
This can be done in (afaik) 2 ways:
Use the limit parameter and reduce the amount of responses you expect from the API
Provide a timeframe (using since and / or until) to fetch only data (posts / videos) for a specific timeframe.
We had the same issue as you, but with retrieving videos from a page. Unfortunately using the limit parameter did not work, even when I set it to limit=1. But by using the since / until parameters we finally got results.
Therefore I suggest to implement a timeframe in order to reduce the amount of data, or alternatively, split the amount of requests you make. e.g. if you want all posts from the past 3 months and run into the mentioned error: split your requests in half using since and until. If that still does not work: keep splitting...
=> Divide and conquer ;)
Hope it helps,
KR, ebbmo
Recent bug filed on FB talks about the same error. They seem to accept that this could be a bug, but not much other information forthcoming.
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1904674066421189/
There are both app-level and user-level rate limits that are enforced on Graph API calls. In your case, it could be that you've made a large number of calls in a short time with user1.
You can check out this page for more about Facebook's rate limits: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/api-rate-limiting (even though the URL refers to the Marketing API, the information also applies to the Graph API.)
I am trying to fetch the reportstats from our account. I need to make async calls because otherwise I would get and error that the data is to old.
When I create multiple requests I will get the error: "There have been too many calls from this ad-account. Wait a bit and try again."
I have only made about 30 request in a small time because of the way the async reports work. Is there a better way to fetch te reporting data? And if there is not is there a way to see the request score that is mentioned in the documentation?
And an other question will be, is there a difference in the amount of request when your app is on development access?
Thanks in advance,
Jorik
First point, according to access level docs here there is heavy rate limiting on the apps that are in development stage.
Second, To fetch reports there are multiple endpoints that, such as ad account wise reports, campaign wise reports, ad wise reports, here is a link to the docs for Insights API
available params are :
act_AD_ACCOUNT_ID/insights
CAMPAIGN_ID/insights
ADSET_ID/insights
AD_ID/insights
Lastly, about rate limiting in marketing api. It is done as a sliding window method which means there is no actual track of number of requests per day or something, its just that a lot of requests in short amount of time is not allowed.
two things you can do are,
first see the response of api and if the response is ratelimit error, stop the request.
second, use batch requests
Here is a gist from troubleshooting guide on limits
Troubleshooting
Timeouts
The most common issues causing failure at this endpoint are too many requests and time outs:
On /GET or synchronous requests, you can get out-of-memory or timeout errors.
On /POST or asynchronous requests, you can possibly get timeout errors. For asynchronous requests, it can take up to an hour to complete a request including retry attempts. For example if you make a query that tries to fetch large volume of data for many ad level objects.
Recommendations
There is no explicit limit for when a query will fail. When it times out, try to break down the query into smaller queries by putting in filters like date range.
Unique metrics are time consuming to compute. Try to query unique metrics in a separate call to improve performance of non-unique metrics.
Rate Limiting
The Facebook Insights API utilizes rate limiting to ensure an optimal reporting experience for all of our partners. For more information and suggestions, see our Insights API Limits & Best Practices.
I've seen lots of mention here and on the web of the rate limit of 600 requests in 600 seconds, though it doesn't seem to be specified on Facebook's Developer site itself. Is there a way to request a higher limit? If not (and assuming we can't reduce the number of requests) what's the recommended way around the limit? Alternating between multiple tokens?
Facebook post..
We have integrated our application with facebook. Everything is working fine and we have observed Feed action request limit reached (341) error.
We have checked the limit in privacy setting having arround 5M. Could you please let us know the limit (number for API's) once so that we will verify properly at our side.
Appreciate the immediate response.
The API limit for Facebook is 600 calls per 600 seconds, per app & per IP. There are also application specific limits for limiting things like Feeds and Requests.
If you are hitting the limit you should seriously optimize your app to make less calls or batch requests.