LinkedIn REST API: Throttle Limit for resource 'Search People' reached at 409 of 100k

Question

I have a program that searches LinkedIn members by their first and last names, for academic research purposes.

I have a LinkedIn developer account that is supposed to have 100k calls to the relevant 'Search People' resource per day, but at only 400+ (see stats below) the API call throws exceptions, saying that "Throttle limit for calls to this resource is reached".

How is this possible where my limit is so much higher?

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LinkedIn statistics from their website:

API Usage Report for beginning 23 Jan 2013 midnight UTC till now

Resource: Search People

Usage: Call Count: 409 Allowed: 100000

Status: OK (green tick)

Throttled Members: 1 (List of Throttled Members for Search People: Idb_YiFpOs)

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 13:23

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The total application limit is 100K, that's right. But there is also a user limit, and a developer limit, where the limit for the developer is 400 calls per 24 hours, this is why you're being throttled.

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/throttle-limits , check the "People Search" section.

answered Jan 28 '13 at 13:23

Samer Bechara

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Scraping is a better option? – dlopezgonzalez Feb 13 '13 at 09:35
Scraping is against the Linkedin TOS, and will get you into a lot of trouble with them. – Samer Bechara Feb 13 '13 at 11:38

Ezekiel Kruglick · Answer 2 · 2015-02-08T17:15:05.750

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It's been a while but the stats suggest people still look at this and I'm experimenting with the LinkedIn API and can provide some more detail.

The typical throttles are stated as both a max (e.g. 100K) and a per-user-token number (e.g. 500). Those numbers together mean you can get up to a maximum of 100,000 calls per day to the API but even as a developer a single user token means a maximum of 500 per day. So that would imply you need 200 users to reach the full quota.

I ran into this, and after setting up the beginnings of an app and getting some users I can confirm there are more total calls allowed. [Removed discussion of what was possibly an accidental backdoor in the LinkedIn API.]

edited Feb 08 '15 at 17:15

answered Feb 07 '15 at 06:41

Ezekiel Kruglick

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Hi, what is the difference in both, I am trying to access the LinkedIn data via script. Now how can I send the query as application and not as individual. – Pratibha Sep 23 '17 at 10:33
As of last I heard they changed the process of getting an application API key and you have to apply through LinkedIn pertnership programs https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs It used to be just an easy online sign up but they did away with that as far as I know. – Ezekiel Kruglick Sep 23 '17 at 16:45

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '18 at 20:01

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For share in linkedin

Throttle Limits

Throttle Type Daily Call Limit (UTC)

Application maximum = 25,000

Per individual user = 25

Per individual developer = 100

answered Jul 04 '18 at 20:01

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LinkedIn REST API: Throttle Limit for resource 'Search People' reached at 409 of 100k

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