# Follows endpoint offset 1700+ error

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [March 18, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854 "2015-03-18T13:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colten45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Colten45](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Colten45)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854/1 "2015-03-18T13:53:04Z")

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I am getting a {“error”:“Forbidden”,“status”:403,“message”:“Offset too high”} when trying to retrieve a rather large list of followers from a channel.

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**Author:** ![george](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/george/32/120_2.png) [@george](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/george)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854/2 "2015-03-18T16:16:01Z")

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Twitch begun limiting the offset on follow endpoints to 1600 due to scrapers causing excessive load.

See [https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/issues/320](https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/issues/320) for more info.

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**Author:** ![Colten45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Colten45](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Colten45)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854/3 "2015-03-19T01:09:12Z")

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Thank you George. I have been away for the past couple of months. I was real tired last night and that’s my fault for not completely looking through past posts.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/follows-endpoint-offset-1700-error/1854/4 "2015-04-18T01:11:12Z")

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