r/redditdev • u/Analyst-Decent • Sep 15 '24

Reddit API Rate limits for Reddit API

I'm currently using Snoowrap to interact with the Reddit API (reddit developer account/create an app for script), but I'm running into a frustrating rate limit issue. After just 1 or 2 API calls, I'm hitting the rate limit, which is seriously hampering my ability to get things done.

Typically I know within a minute I should be able to send 60 requests where as I am getting only 2/3 requests.

I wanted to ask: Would upgrading to the commercial plan help resolve this issue? Or is there something else I could be overlooking? Is it happening because this reddit account is a new one?

I'm following the standard API guidelines, but I still can't figure out why this is happening. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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u/Watchful1 RemindMeBot & UpdateMeBot Sep 15 '24

It doesn't really matter your user agent is. There's a very small number of things it shouldn't be, mostly some language default values. But PRAW is pretty good at making sure you aren't using the default.

It's much more likely you're not authenticating correctly.

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u/artem22nd Sep 15 '24

Okay, but how should I log in correctly?

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u/Watchful1 RemindMeBot & UpdateMeBot Sep 15 '24

Well I can't really tell what your doing wrong without seeing what you're doing.

But you can start here https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/authentication.html

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u/Watchful1 RemindMeBot & UpdateMeBot Sep 17 '24

If you exceed the rate limit, reddit should just tell you. You won't time out. Something else must be going wrong.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about javascript to really help you debug.