[API Update] API Rate Limit Tuning

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@claudeebum they heard people were hitting usage limits, and decided to just slow it down so people didn’t

6.1 sol in subscriptions are slow as fuck why they offers different speed from api https://t.co/O2raTYP0VG

Roblox is lowering cookie and unauthenticated IP rate limits for several web API services after October 19, including Inventory, Users, Thumbnails, Badges, and DataStore-related APIs. Roblox says most users should see little to no impact, but third-party tools with higher request volumes may need t

Roblox is drastically lowering rate limits for several APIs starting after October 19th Some endpoints are dropping from 10,000 requests per minute to just 100. This mainly affects third-party tools and extensions.

Heads up devs! Rate limits are getting tuned for six web API services after Oct 19. Cookie & unauthenticated IP limits go lower, but will stay above observed peak usage. Open Cloud unchanged. Details here: https://t.co/YPkQJq5LVU #Roblox #RobloxDev

so who abused the apis for this to happen? for anyone who wanted a simplified, summed up version of what important changed: image 1081×578 37.1 KB also a bit off topic but can we get a fix to this so third party sites can fix dynamic face tracking finally? Inventory & Owners API does not return

Hey all my games either 0 ccu or average 6 and below are all being flagged for “over limit”, this fr? RN only in datastore manager. How u expect a brand new game that has no earnings yet to pay for more? That’s no profit for a new game

a complete idiot probably using some vibecoded bot making way more requests than necessary by the sounds of it

This is a visual bug and will be fixed soon. You aren’t actually over the limit. Datastore Manager Pagination Issue Creator Hub (create.roblox.com) Bugs this should be fixed now, sry about that

Oh thank you! Can confirm its fixed on my end, was trying to find a bug report on this but couldn’t find it when I first saw this, thought the first thing I do is complain while seeing this announcement, thank you again for letting me know I was worried

i understand why you wanna lower it but some of us (I) have valid use cases At least replace the cookie based API first Again, Roblox keeps stepping on Developers foot

If you have valid use cases why are you not explaining your use case and why it needs such an absurdly large rate limit in the first place so that they have a better time understanding if it is actually valid and should be considered?

well this sucks, gonna impact my new game a lot

I have a Discord bot that checks for Badges and Gamepasses for my game those are the only concerns and use case that I have Now I don’t think my bot would hit rate limits BUT I’m still not happy with how Roblox is operating here, they could have provided a more elegant solution and transition

Great, so where’s the Roblox announcement regarding the ban wave that’s affected a large chunk of your platform for transferring Robux (or uploading items)?

Kitsune: they could have provided a more elegant solution and transition You already clearly have a third party server, is the elegant solution not just to have your game send updated information about the player’s badges and gamepasses as state changes in-game to your server to store/cache? Keeping

So, is it easier to get rate limited now?

im a bit worried about the huge issues on the site since there’s like high chance of being rate limited with lots of extensions enabled.

How likely are we estimating sites like Towerstats or Rolimons to be affected?

This is absolutely insane. WHY on earth would you nuke API limits so much??? How does one switch to “open cloud” apis for in game things for external tools.. Absolutely aseinine move and I hope you reverse it with such a small window we don’t have time to change anything to prevent the crazy throttl

Nice! Another update that wasn’t needed

??? Unprovoked ??? this is kinda unnecessary…