flickr API calls - call

im interested how many api calls per second or per minute i can do with my flickr API Key?
is there a limit or is it unlimited?

It is unlimited: http://developer.yahoo.com/flickr/
To make Flickr web service calls, you
must get an application key. There are
no set restrictions on the number of
calls your application can make.

it is unlimited.
you can genrate your flickr key from
https://www.flickr.com/services/apps

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Get CS:GO Inventory from Steam API for my React APP

Since requesting the Inventory from https://api.steampowered.com/IEconItems_730/GetPlayerItems/v1/ is permanently disabled I have to use https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/<steam_id>/inventory/json/2
Because of CORS I have to use my backend to provide the requested data. But when I do requests too often, my requests get rejected and my app cannot work on a large scale.
So the question should be simple: How can I avoid the rejection of my requests?
Any ideas and suggestions welcome.
Steam inventory endpoints are pretty heavily rate-limited, but there are a few different endpoints that you can use.
Trade offer endpoint
https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/partnerinventory
This is the endpoint that's used when you open a trade offer with someone. It can be used to fetch both your own inventory as well as a trade partners. Required parameters are partner which is the user's Steam 64 Id, appid which is 730 in the case of CS:GO, and contextid which is 2 for most valve games. I don't know the exact limit, but I've been hitting this endpoint about once a second for a month with minimal 429 responses. To use this endpoint, you need to have a valid steam session and send the proper cookies along with the request. This will also only return tradable items.
Inventory endpoint #1
http://steamcommunity.com/inventory/STEAM64ID/APPID/CONTEXTID
Another inventory endpoint which has the same parameters but in the URL. I use this endpoint as a fallback to the first, but I've found that if the first endpoint is rate limited then this one will be too. That said, this one becomes limited much faster so it's best to use the first one instead.
Inventory endpoint #2
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/STEAM64ID/inventory/json/APPID/CONTEXTID
The endpoint you're using. I don't use this one at all, but it could be worth knowing as another fallback.
Not all of them return the same data format, so be mindful. One inventory a second is a pretty solid rate for any decently sized site, especially if you limit user's ability to refresh inventories. If you need more though, you'll have to start looking into proxies.

Publishing message to GCP pubsub using API is time Consuming

I have a node js app in mongodb cloud platform,which will be used for posting 1 million messages to a topic in GCP pubsub.Since the platform is not supporting the npm package #google-cloud/pubsub,we implemented it using the API reference for Pubsub.Upon load testing the app,I can see each message is taking 50 seconds for posting it to the topic.Ideally it should take less than 5 secs.It takes around 30 seconds for the access_token API call and 20 seconds for the message posting API call.Since each message posting is a independent event,we cannot maintain a session to store the access_token and reuse it and API_KEY authentication method is not available for GCP PubSub.Is the API method for gcp pubsub is very slow when compared to using library #google-cloud/pubsub ?.
Can anyone suggest a solution to improve performance of GCP PubSub using APIs
The PubSub client library are greatly optimized in several ways. The first one is the use of gRPC protocol instead of REST API. Then, there is message aggregation before a push to PubSub (500ms of wait by default). Then, there is various async mechanism to parallelize the processing.
So, a huge and great work done by the Client Library teams and hard (or expensive) to reproduce on your side. But you can, the sources are public, you can have a look to the client libraries!
The 30s for the access_token retrieval is too long. Are you sure that you haven't network issue? In any case, this token is valid for 1H. If you can reuse it in your subsequent call you will save a lot of time!

Stackoverflow quota for a day

I'm using stackoverflow in my meteor application,
I'm calling api directly from my code like below
HTTP.call("GET", urlString,{params:{site:"stackoverflow"}},function(error,result)
{
console.log(result.data);
});
I'm not using any oauth or client id secret id in my calls.
In the response, I'm getting a variable called quota. with maximum pings 300
Is that means I can only call the api for 300 times, I want more than that, I'm even ready to pay for it.
Is there a way to increase that number.
Thanks
You are throttled because you have not registered your application. If you register your application, you will receive a quota increase to 10,000 hits per day. You will want to read the authentication documentation on how to utilize the keys you receive from registering your application.

Running Amazon product api based application via proxy to avoid throttle

I am making an application based on Amazon Product API (or could be MWS), I will need to fetch data huge information again and again. So, in order to avoid Throttling limits, i would like to use Proxy ips.
Is this a valid thing to do.
1. Is the throttling limit apply per MWS account or per IP address
2. There are several proxy hosts avaialble for free/commerical. Is it ok to use them.
thanks
Valid? not really.
Amazon has some sharp people working there. I'm pretty sure this scheme wouldn't last very long. Your api access would be revoked pretty quickly.

google ajax-search-api call "quota exceeded" on google app engine

i tried to use the custom search api ( http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/websearch/docs ) with java. it works perfectly on eclipse on my local machine.
when i try to do the same from google app engine the reply is: {"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "Quota Exceeded. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/websearch", "responseStatus": 403}
i do not understand. isn't it possible to call search api from GAE apps?
If you look at the very top of that page you linked to, they note that the API has been deprecated and the number of search queries you can make is limited.
However, if you absolutely NEED to use that API instead of the Custom Search API as Google suggests, there are a few troubleshooting steps you can take:
1) Check that your API key is unique to the project, and the limited number of queries you're allowed isn't being consumed by some other application.
2) Google does (did?) hostname filtering so that one computer doesn't use up all the API requests. You may be able to move the queries to Javascript instead of Java -- essentially move the request from the server to the client.
3) Try using a named backend (Java Backends)

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