API Hits

Also known as: API calls, search hits

One of the two quotas indexers meter, counting searches rather than downloads. Every query an automation tool sends consumes a hit, so a setup polling a dozen indexers every fifteen minutes burns through an allowance quickly. Free accounts are often limited to a few dozen or a few hundred hits a day; exceeding the cap returns an error until the counter resets.

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