Linkedin API throttle limit

linkedin throttling
Virendra Goswami picture Virendra Goswami · Sep 9, 2012 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

Recently I was developing an application using Linkedin people-search API. Documentation says that a developer registration has 1 lac API calls per day, but when I have registered this API, and ran a python script, after some 300 calls it says throttle limit exceeds. Did anyone face such kind of issue using Linkedin API, comments are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Ezekiel Kruglick picture Ezekiel Kruglick · Feb 7, 2015

It's been a while but the stats suggest people still look at this and I'm experimenting with the LinkedIn API and can provide some more detail.

The typical throttles are stated as both a max (e.g. 100K) and a per-user-token number (e.g. 500). Those numbers together mean you can get up to a maximum of 100,000 calls per day to the API but even as a developer a single user token means a maximum of 500 per day.

I ran into this, and after setting up a barebones app and getting some users I can confirm a daily throttle of several thousands of API calls. [Deleted discussion of what was probably, upon further consideration, an accidental back door in the LinkedIn API.]

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