From 26463503d5b4e26df40111afb38cf094f2174e98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "alessia.bardi" <alessia.bardi@isti.cnr.it>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:58:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added APi rate limits

git-svn-id: https://svn.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/driver/dnet45/modules/dnet-api-http-doc/src@51381 d315682c-612b-4755-9ff5-7f18f6832af3
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 api.html      | 7 +++++++
 overview.html | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/api.html b/api.html
index 4fd6c9d..0036cf3 100755
--- a/api.html
+++ b/api.html
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@
                     the whole information space: the number of total results returned by one query is limited to 10,000. For accessing the whole information space, developers are
                     encouraged to use the <a href="http://api.openaire.eu/#cha_oai_pmh" target="_blank">OAI-PMH</a>.<br>
                   </p>
+                    <p>
+                        API rate limits:
+                        <ul>
+                            <li>no more then 37 concurrent request in total (max 30 per single IP)</li>
+                            <li>no more than 15 requests/second (in total, not per IP. If this limit is reached, requests will be delayed).</li>
+                        </ul>
+                    </p>
                     <p> Parameters included in this section can always be specified, regardless the type of <strong>entities</strong> (metadata about <strong>publications</strong>,
                       <strong>datasets</strong>, or <strong>projects</strong>) you want to retrieve. <br>
                         To query for publications metadata: <strong>http://api.openaire.eu/search/publications</strong> <br>
diff --git a/overview.html b/overview.html
index 2d95ed3..b74954c 100755
--- a/overview.html
+++ b/overview.html
@@ -185,6 +185,15 @@
                       <li>oaf v0.1 <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.1/oaf-0.1.xsd" target="_blank">XML schema</a> and <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.1/doc/oaf-0.1.html" target="_blank">documentation</a></li>
                     </ul>
                   </p>
+                      <p>
+                          <span class="uk-text-lead">API rate limits:</span>
+                      <ul>
+                        <li>no more than 30 concurrent connections from single IP to any of domains</li>
+                        <li>no more than 67 concurrent requests in total</li>
+                        <li>no more then 37 concurrent request in total (max 30 per single IP) to the search API</li>
+                        <li>no more than 15 requests/second tothe search API (in total, not per IP. If this limit is reached, requests will be delayed).</li>
+                      </ul>
+                      </p>
                     <!-- Content GOES HERE-->
                   </div>
                </div>