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Rate limits are per user or per api key?

I have read about the general rate limiting system of the Dropbox API,

Is this rate limiting system active on the calls to the API per user, or per app/project?

Also if it is active per user, then does it mean if I use only one Dropbox account for uploading/downloading files and provide each instance of my app with the token key(I know bad for security reasons), and many different people call the API, then is that counted as only one user? And if so should I have all users authenticate their own account so the API differentiates the calls as from different users?

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Greg-DB

Yes, the rate limiting system works per-user account, and that is one reason that having all of your end-users connect to a single Dropbox account is not recommended, as all of their traffic will be attributed to that one account. And yes, the API was designed with the intention that each user would each connect their own Dropbox account.