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Its a great Initiative for people working in Drug repositioning especially, thank you for working towards bringing about such a nice technological api that suits bioinformaticians like me... I have a question on why do you limit the Api calls to 60000 with a key per day, what is stopping you from setting an higher limit..

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We set it to 120req/minute and 60,000req/day to ensure that load on the system isn't too high at launch. Over the next few weeks, we'll be adjusting the limits based on the traffic patterns we see.

As noted in the documentation, if you need more than 60,000 per day, give us a ring at open@fda.hhs.gov.

Huge shout out to api.data.gov as well - all of our key authentication and analytics are powered by their open source API Umbrella platform.

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