Deezer · Rate Limits

Deezer Rate Limits

Deezer publishes a global limit of 50 requests per 5 seconds per IP/app on the public REST API. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 4xx with an error code. There is no documented daily quota.

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Limits

Default ip-or-app
requests
50 per 5 seconds
Documented rate-limit baseline.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Sleep at least 100ms between bursts; on rate-limit errors apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Caching
Cache catalog responses; track/album metadata is stable and rarely needs re-fetching.

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