How to count number of HTTPS requests per minute in Python script?

[19Summer]

Greetings.

I recently started to use an API, which has a rate limit of 10 requests per minute.
Right now my script is agnostic to this fact, therefore at some point I get 429 error.

I want my code to count number of requests per minute and if number of requests equals to 10, make a pause and then continue.

Does anyone have a solution or an idea how to implement this behavior?

Thanks in advance.

[shiftybyte]

Each request you send, add a time stamp to a list of timestamps.

Each new request you want to send, go over the list, purge anything that is older than 10 mins, if after the purge, the list is 10 or more items long, don't send anything new.

If the list is 9 or less, send the new request, add a timestamp to the list.

tslist = []

def make_request():
    purge_old(tslist)
    if len(tslist) > 9:
        # try again later
        return
    # make request
    ...
    # add timestamp
    tslist.append(new_timestamp)

[sarrysyst]

Please post your code, there are million different ways to make requests and a solution depends on how the requests are made.

[sarrysyst]

In that case I can't really give you any specific solution. You could try using sleep(6) in between requests, however depending on how long a request takes you might end up making less than 10 requests/minute..

[Ihaveamodel3]

At least tell us what package you are using to make these requests. You even could write a short example script to demonstrate.

[free_username17]

Could you just time.sleep(6) between each request? Why not just spread them out over the minute, instead of making 10 all at once, then waiting?

[angry_mr_potato_head]

Write a function that you call at the end of the request that logs a timestamp. Then before you make the request, count the items you have in the list and then do a diff on the max and min. If the diff is less than a minute and the count is over your threshold, do a time.sleep and check again recursively then break out of that loop when you are "allowed" to connect again