Rate limits

Every API key is allowed 120 requests per minute. The window is fixed (not a sliding window): the first request opens a 60-second bucket, and the counter resets when that bucket expires. The limit is enforced per-key — so you can scale horizontally by issuing additional keys to separate workers.

Headers

Every response from an API-key-authenticated request includes the rate-limit state, so you can self-throttle without waiting to hit a 429.

Header	Description
`X-RateLimit-Limit`	Your per-minute cap. `120` for all standard accounts.
`X-RateLimit-Remaining`	Requests left in the current window after this call.
`X-RateLimit-Reset`	Unix timestamp (seconds) when the window resets.
`Retry-After`	Seconds to wait before retrying. Only present on 429 responses.

The headers fire on every status code — 200, 400, 404, 429, 502, etc. — as long as the request authenticated via API key. Anonymous (web-form) and Google-session-token requests do not receive these headers because they’re not subject to the same per-key quota.

Handling 429

When you exceed the limit, the API returns:

{ "error": "Rate limit exceeded. Try again later." }

…with a Retry-After header. Wait that many seconds before your next request. Don’t poll faster — repeated 429s won’t shorten the wait, they just waste sockets.

import time, requests

def call_with_retry(url, payload, headers):
    while True:
        r = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
        if r.status_code != 429:
            return r
        wait = int(r.headers.get("Retry-After", "1"))
        time.sleep(wait)

Self-throttling

Watch X-RateLimit-Remaining on normal traffic and slow down before you hit the wall. A small headroom (e.g. pause when remaining drops below 10) absorbs the slop from in-flight requests that haven’t decremented yet. For higher concurrency, issue a separate key per worker — each key has its own independent 120/min bucket.

Higher limits

Need more than 120/min? Email hello@transcriptmagic.com — we lift caps to 600/min for verified production accounts.

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​Handling 429

​Self-throttling

​Higher limits

Headers

Handling 429

Self-throttling

Higher limits