I am trying to develop a personal application that uses plex’s authentication. I accidently (didn’t even think) used a while loop without a wait/sleep to check a Polling flow pin. I have now gotten an “api rate limit exceeded” error. How long does this usually take to reset?

Searched the forum for “api rate limit exceeded.” Found this thread: [image] "API rate limit exceeded" When Getting Certificate Plex Media Server @MarkJH Normal rate limiting idle time required to clear throttling is that the API will remove the limit 24 hours after fir…

You’ll need to wait 24 hours for it to unlock. Plex.tv does not take kindly to anything which looks like a DDOS attack.

Thanks for all the responses. Turns out I waited like 30 mins and it let me try again. This time with a safeguard. glad it wasn’t 24 hours though.

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FordGuy61 April 11, 2021, 2:49am 2

Searched the forum for “api rate limit exceeded.” Found this thread:

Topic		Replies	Views
API rate limit exceeded Plex Media Server server-windows	3	67	November 10, 2024
API rate limit exceeded status=429 Remote Access server-windows	3	94	November 22, 2024
API rate limit exceeded General Discussions server-linux	4	228	February 18, 2024
API Rate Limit Exceeded (429) - New Server Setup - Certificate Reset Request Plex Media Server server-linux	4	152	January 17, 2026
429 Rate Limit Plex Media Server server-windows	2	61	February 24, 2025

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