OpenNG

Rate limits

Anonymous vs authenticated quotas and headers

Behaviour

  • Anonymous: sliding window per IP.
  • Authenticated: keyed by API key hash with higher ceilings.

Headers

Successful responses may include:

  • RateLimit-Limit — allowed requests in the window
  • RateLimit-Remaining — requests left
  • RateLimit-Reset — window reset time
  • 429 with Retry-After when exceeded

Tune clients to backoff and cache stable reference data (states, LGAs).

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