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Apollo uses an average of 324 requests per user per day, according to the developer's farewell announcement posted yesterday [0].

I hadn't heard anything about the "Free Data API" limit of 100 qpm before this either, so I assume the issues is that the free API is filtered and does not include any "mature content".

> Effective July 5, 2023, we will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed. This change will not impact any moderator bots or extensions. In our conversations with moderators and developers, we heard two areas of feedback we plan to address.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

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Let's say Apollo can cut down to 100 requests per user per day. at 100 qpm, assuming equal distribution, they now can have one user for each minute in a day. Somehow I don't think having 1440 users is going to cut it.

I think the free limit is supposed to be per user, since he says that "over 90% of apps" make rates at requests within the free limit.

... if they meant per user, they'd say per user. They don't, but explicitly say that it is per client id (=app).

> since he says that "over 90% of apps" make rates at requests within the free limit.

>90% of apps are people that played around with the API a bit for fun or run a small hobby-bot or something. Of course those stay below the limit (and for many of those, 100 qpm is indeed quite generous). It's also entirely irrelevant to the small number of apps that non-dev end users use.

> ... if they meant per user, they'd say per user. They don't, but explicitly say that it is per client id (=app).

You may be right, the reddit post has been edited multiple times. I assumed when it referenced OAuth that it was per end user, but it does seem that "client_id" is global to the application. I wish I could find any place else that lays out the details on the limit besides just this one reddit post...

Currently, it says the limit is "100 queries per minute per OAuth client id if you are using OAuth authentication"

And it's pretty shitty if he's including every single toy project within the "90% of apps".

> Important note: currently, our rate limit response headers indicate counts by client id/user id combination. These headers will update to reflect this new policy based on client id only on July 1.

https://reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_e...

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