Rate limits
Defining how often you can call the REST API
Headers
Rate limit information is returned in the response headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit
- Number of requests permitted per time period
X-RateLimit-Remaining
- Number of requests you can still make
X-RateLimit-Reset
- Timestamp when your rate limit will reset
Limits
By default, the following limits are hardcoded:
Per account
All endpoints and methods can be called 300 times within 5 minutes.
Uploading media
POST /api/v1/media
can be called 30 times within 30 minutes.
Deleting statuses
Either DELETE /api/v1/statuses/:id
or POST /api/v1/statuses/:id/unreblog
can be called 30 times within 30 minutes.
Per IP
All endpoints and methods can be called 300 times within 5 minutes.
Creating accounts
POST /api/v1/accounts
can be called 5 times within 30 minutes.
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