Rate limit Shopify API calls in Ruby — Small-biz version — Practical take

cafe_carl

I am using Shopify's shopify_api gem in Ruby. I am updating each products cost and price from an external source however I am hitting the API limits and receiving 429 Too Many Requests ( https://help.shopify.com/en/api/reference/rest-admin-api-rate-limits ). How can I edit the below to respect the API limits? I would rather use the data supplied in X-Shopify-Shop-Api-Call-Limit and Retry-After rather than adding a fixed sleep . products =...

Originally asked by user11736353 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There's a gem from Shopify itself to help with rate limiting: https://github.com/Shopify/limiter .

Full answer by claasz: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/56955274 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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