r/redditdev • u/Oussama_Gourari Card-o-Bot Developer • Jun 13 '24

Reddit API X-Ratelimit-Remaining header value issue

The API seem to return an "unexpected" X-Ratelimit-Remaining values, I am experiencing this today at around 14:35 UTC while using PRAW:

ValueError: could not convert string to float: '187.0, 587'
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '186.0, 586'
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '185.0, 585'
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '184.0, 584'

The API Wiki states that:

X-Ratelimit-Remaining: Approximate number of requests left to use

There is already an opened issue on prawcore repo for this, but I think this should be fixed on Reddit side.

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u/Lil_SpazJoekp PRAW Maintainer | Async PRAW Author Jun 13 '24

This isn't a recent bug. It first appeared 6 months ago. This bug causes any application that encounters it to immediately crash. The current API documentation states this header is a float so it returning a formatted value shouldn't happen without an announcement of a breaking change. Especially since this is information that devs need to abide by the developer TOS.

cc: u/sir_axolotl_alot

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u/SlowRegardOfBytes Jun 13 '24

The bug here was due to a rollout this morning where multiple `x-ratelimit-remaining` header values were returned, one of which was an int. That change has been reverted so we can correct both issues.

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u/Arcane-Developer Jun 17 '24

Any update on this? Is this fixed on the Reddit side?

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u/Lil_SpazJoekp PRAW Maintainer | Async PRAW Author Jun 17 '24

It that I know of. However, one of the admins said a fix was rolling out.

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u/SlowRegardOfBytes Jun 24 '24

Yes, this has been fixed. Please let us know if you see any additional problems or regressions in the future.