I'm running queries against the IGDB API, and cannot find any documentation on how many requests/minute am I allowed to send via their free plan. There is a limit of 5 requests/minute against their api_status endpoint- but I cannot find any information for other endpoints like games. I'm aware of the 50,000 requests/month, but I'm trying to figure out whether there is a request limit per minute/hour as well, or I can just send as many requests as I want until I run out of requests?
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Rate Limits ([https://api-docs.igdb.com/#rate-limits][1])
There is a rate limit of 4 requests per second. If you go over this limit you will receive a response with status code 429 Too Many Requests.
You are able to have up to 8 open requests at any moment in time. This can occur if requests take longer than 1 second to respond when multiple requests are being made.
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