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Facebook API Limitations

I use Facebook Graph and the FQL API from the application (authenticated by OAuth). I could not find anything about speed limiting / throttling in the documentation. Usually, I expect some kind of limit in class / user ...

Looking at the Facebook page of the Insigths → Diagnostics app:

PI Throttling None during specified period. API Throttling Warnings None during specified period. Feature Limits Feature limit per user, per day Requests 1.0 20

This means that you can use some kind of throttling. Has anyone got more info about this?

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I also do not know any strict restrictions, but for graph data requests, I heard the number of 600 requests every 600 seconds. However, this seems to change almost arbitrarily.

This seems to be the best information I could find on it. From personal experience, I have systems that average 14-15 graph / min calls and can run them for several days in a row without errors.

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Don't forget the fql result set limit of 5000 results.

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This is what is available right now: 600 requests per 600 secs per access token

And when your application becomes more trusted, like getting sympathy, these restrictions rise, although this limit is already good enough for almost all cases.

In addition to the limits of API calls, there is a limit on the number of requests and invitations that you can send to a user per day.

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