TIL Putting a redundant API key as a backup

POSTED ON: Jun 18, 2021

TAGS: api

Have a backup API key in your system. If you get a rate limit error, you can switch over to it.

Great if you're using a free project and need a quick workaround.
But just remember not to abuse resources.

The fatal bug that caused me to take down my bot was that I hit an hourly API rate limit. I took the obvious approach of keeping redundancy in my system: Keep an alternative API key, and once the primary one runs out, switch over to the alternative, and then switch back at the turn of the hour.

Via How to Recover from Deployment Hell – What I Learned After My Discord Bot Crashed on a 1,000+ User Server

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