Rate limit of freekey is not respected
AoDev opened this issue · 4 comments
I am monitoring a couple of addresses with a built-in rate limiter of 1 request every 10 seconds.
This is far below the current limits but I am still hitting 429 request limit reached.
Requests are limited to 5 per second, 50/min, 200/hour, 2000/24hours, 3000/week.
Max age for timestamp parameter: 30 days
Are these limits correct?
Yes, they are correct. 1 request per 10 seconds is 8640 per 24h that is a lot more than the limit.
Why not get your personal key in the Ethplorer account? It's free of charge and allows 10 rps.
There is a misunderstanding. I am queuing the requests to 1 request every 10 seconds to avoid "burst". I didn't mean that I am querying continuously every 10 seconds. The app is checking balances of a few addresses every 10 minutes and I ensure that there is 10 seconds between each individual address request.
I don't create a personal key because I don't want to link wallets to identity. The point of the monitoring app I use is keeping privacy.
freekey is for development, not production. It allows burst but is limited to long periods.
For privacy, you can create your own RPC-point and proxy requests with your own key there.
BTW: to track new transactions - check the Bulk API Monitor