# Using the API - Good practices

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/using-the-api-good-practices/53>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [June 27, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/using-the-api-good-practices/53 "2013-06-27T21:41:53Z")\
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2y old thread so maybe a new one would be better as V5 is now recently released and a new Dev Agreement published (or a better outlined one.) Speaking of which, the [Developer Agreement](https://www.twitch.tv/p/developer-agreement) is a good place to start but there isn’t really a **hard** limit, the general guideline is 1 call/sec at most - I don’t believe it’s necessarily tracked by IP but rather Client ID (or a conjunction of the two).

Twitch monitors usage and will contact you if it is what they consider excessive.

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