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How often am I allowed to contact PayPal API?

Right now I contact the PayPal API to check the subscription status everytime the user enters the profile settings, and each time a new access token is generated.

Is this considered a bad practice in production? Should I rather set a timer for 24 hours and check the subscription status only once a day to reduce the load on PayPal's end? Does this even matter?

And would it be better to somehow store a new access token in the .env everytime it expires (PayPal gives the duration)?

I just want to know if there are any limitations since [https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/reference/rate-limiting/][1] does not give any specific numbers.

Solution

  • This is a question for PayPal's support but something like 100 requests/minute per endpoint would seem safe. Caching the access token is always preferred, certainly--saves you an unnecessary API call.