Too Many Requests Error

gagsbh

Hello Greg,

 

I am using the following Dropbox Team API - ListFolderContinueAsync in our production Dropbox application.
result = await clientadmin.Files.ListFolderContinueAsync(model.basechangetoken);

However, this is giving error:

too_many_requests/...
at Dropbox.Api.DropboxRequestHandler.<RequestJsonString>d__17.MoveNext()

Can you please help me know how to resolve this issue.

 

Thanks,
Gagan

Greg-DB

The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system that can result in errors like this. In any case that you get one of these the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not. Make sure you're not submitting a large number of requests per user, or multiple identical requests at the same time.

You can find more information about the errors that the API returns here. In the .NET SDK in particular, you can get the Retry-After value from RateLimitException.RetryAfter.