504 in kite api means API rate limit error ?

tradeterminal

I am trying to fetch historical continuous data of multiple instruments over a period. The initial fetch went through perfect. After a while, when I increased the number of workers, it started giving out 504 errors. Timeout on my HTTP client is 10 seconds.

Rate limit is fine. Give a proper http error (429) and please mention the api rate limits in the docs so that devs can plan accordingly

sujith

You can check out the rate limits here.

sujith

If you are pulling data continuously and getting 504 then you can add some delay and fetch it again. It is possible that a request would have failed by the time DB fetch is completed.

tradeterminal

Is it possible to download the historical data as a file dump ? Instead of api calls. Will save both of our computing resource and my time

tradeterminal

@sujith need clarity on api rate limits. Is it based on IP or app key ?

sujith

All the rate limits are based on the api_key. I am afraid we can't provide data in the file dump. You will have to fetch it as JSON and convert it at your end.