Rate Limit on oauth/request_token

[Jaiyo]

Recently users have been seeing 429 rate limiting on 

oauth/request_token which effects all users. Is this intended?

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

Is your app making Client Only calls to other endpoints?

The request_token and access_token endpoints do not affect your rate limit (ie it doesnt use up your quota). However if your client exceeds the Client Only rate limit through calling other endpoints, your client will be blocked from making (client only) requests to all endpoints (including the oauth endpoints).

[Jaiyo]

Thanks for the quick response! I will look into it and reply later!

[Jaiyo]

I can't seem to find any culprit to this problem. It just started happening after months of no issues. Would it be possible to not rate limit on the OAuth 1.0a auth process? I do not make any client API calls... Would it be possible to just disable client api calls and not have thsi rate limit issue?

Thanks!

[SunsetRunner]

Please Private Message me your Consumer Key and I can track down which calls are being made as OAuth 1.0 Client Only call.

[SunsetRunner]

I got your PM with the consumer key. Your application has made several thousand client only API calls in the last 24 hours and most of those were not for /oauth/request_token or /oauth/access_token.

I'll send you more detailed info in a PM.

[ThatOneCat]

Thanks! Very helpful!