HTTP 429 Too Many Requests

[DilonFernando03]

Hey guys, I have been implementing the api data into my final year project for university. I am developing a f1 driver data dashboard, and currently I am using the api for creating a winner predictor, but I keep getting the 429 too many requests error and can't understand why? I did see an earlier post about this but even when I just make a single request it still returns that error? My project is also in my github if anyone wants to take a look to help out. Thank you for your time.

[Oldertarl]

It is all about caching the (static) information in a json file or database.
Constantly retrieving all data will hit the throttle of the endpoint.

[jolpica]

We currently have 2 ratelimits in place, 4 requests per second and 500 requests per hour.
You likely hit our ratelimit of 500 requests per hour, if you try again in an hour it should have reset.

If you need all the data, it might make more sense to download the entire dataset. You can grab it in csv format from ergast here. We don't have our own database images available yet, but we will do so in the future.