What are the roblox ratelimits? Or how can I handle them?

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to have my bot handle ratelimits, but this has to be done through either the 429 errors, or the Retry-After method.However, roblox doesn’t have the Retry-After header during 429 requests. Does anyone know how to roughly get the ratelimits on the web API’s?

  2. What is the issue? Roblox doesn’t have a public documentation about their web API ratelimits

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Not really, either incomplete or abanded/outdated

Ohh right, forgot to mention. This is not inside Roblox, it’s Java.

#2

(For the web API’s, like Groups Api)

#3

You can use pcall to check if the request was successful or not, if the request fails you can try again later.

#4

Ohh right, forgot to mention. This is not inside Roblox, it’s Java.

#5

Why would you use java for sending http requests? Why not node.js or python?

On the other note, the rate limit is probably 5-3 requests per minute

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#6

Because my bot is made in Java. Everyone has their own language for programming.

#7

Not 100% sure on that, I have had moments where I could send 2 requests per second to:
https://groups.roblox.com/v2/users/25900585/groups/roles and this for around 3000 requests

#8

What i meant is after after sending 10-3 requests in a short period of time, roblox will just rate limit you until the next minute passes

#9

So roblox ratelimits by the minute? Could I wait for 429’s and wait a minute before continuing with requests?

#10

(At least, if any 429’s apply)

#11

You can probably do that. Although its pretty inefficient

#12

It’s the best I got, unless someone else has a better idea. I already use a bucket based system. But I have no idea what the ratelimits roughly are

#13

you should check this out, it appears to be open source.

#14

Java/outside of roblox, not Lua

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