Do tokens generated for other eBay accounts consume the overall call count?
The call limits page mentions call limits like "100,000 API calls per day" for Feed API.
If I login to my own personal account and use up all those calls, are other users who passed the grant flow subjected to the same limits or do they get their own limits? For example, if I used 70,000 Feed API calls, do all other users (who've passed the grant flow from a unique account) only have 30,000 calls left to make?
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shipscript
·3 years agoThe call limit is based on your developer ID. Every developer ID will have its own independent limits. If another developer has 100,000 calls and uses them all, you will still have 100,000 calls to use on your account.
swiv-o-matic
OP3 years agoThanks, but I think we may be on different pages here. Not sure why would it matter if another developer uses their calls or not as it doesn't affect me. More specifically:
I create an application.
User installs application.
User grants authorization for the application to act on their behalf.
Now, another user does the same.
Is the call limit an overall limit for ALL users or only for each user?
For example, do each of these users get 5,000 Trading API calls or do they "share" the 5,000 calls?
shipscript
·3 years agoThank you for the clarification. The developer ID essentially controls the call limit for most developers. The developer ID is used to create the keyset and the keyset is integrated with the application. The majority of developers will only have one production keyset. The call count is logged to the keyset for the application. So the call limit is not based on the different users of your application. I tried to find some documentation for you, and this is about as close as I could get:
https://developer.ebay.com/support/kb-article?KBid=1359
swiv-o-matic
OP3 years agoThank you for your help, I appreciate it.
Also just wanted to say thanks for all you've done on this forum, it's been really helpful.