How do I receive API Throttling Warnings?

Question

We need to fetch mutual friend data for each one of our new users. (We're currently doing that through the REST API.) In load testing for an upcoming traffic surge, we ran into API throttling, which breaks our production site. Oops!

In the Insights -> Diagnostics pane, it looks like they issue throttling warnings before they actually throttle. Is there some way we can monitor those limits in code so that we back off gracefully?

No you can't... Just don't hog the API ;) – Lix Jan 31 '12 at 18:11 — Lix, Jan 31 '12 at 18:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 18:43

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You will want to watch for the two errors coming back, then put your next call on a wait timer.

API_EC_TOO_MANY_CALLS Application request limit reached
API_EC_USER_TOO_MANY_CALLS User request limit reached

See: http://www.fb-developers.info/tech/fb_dev/faq/general/gen_10.html for more information.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 18:43

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Thanks! That gets the errors; do you know how the warnings come back? – William Pietri Jan 31 '12 at 23:29
Facebook returns those in the response from their servers, just like they do with any other error. – DMCS Feb 01 '12 at 00:49
This did not answer the question. The warnings did not come back as errors in any of our tests. The errors did, of course, but by then it's too late. – William Pietri Apr 18 '12 at 20:13

How do I receive API Throttling Warnings?

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