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Rate Limiting
Most web service APIs have some sort of rate limiting. That is to say, they'll allow a certain number of requests per second or a certain number of total requests per day. We've previously been the exception to this rule. We've always wanted to give you -- the Openlist.ca API developer -- the opportunity to develop a classifieds application that takes off in popularity and grows rapidly, without bounds. As traffic to the Openlist.ca API continues to grow, however, we need to maintain the ability to manage incoming traffic. It should be obvious that a handful of users with download scripts should not degrade the service for the hundreds of other API applications that are using it as a realtime service and are calling it as such. In the future, we may decide to join the crowd and install rate limiting on the Openlist.ca API. If so, any API download scripts that call the API in a rapid fire method are likely to be affected. Those scripts may stop working altogether.