According to documentation: https://www.instagram.com/developer/limits/
The rate-limit control works under a "time-sliding" window, the question is:
What's the frequency of increasing for the remaining calls HTTP header (x-ratelimit-remaining) seconds? minutes?, an hour?
Reading the docs. "5000/hr per token for Live apps" (our company App went Live already), I assumed a frequency limiter, being calculated each second or minute, but after several days trying different strategies the value doesnt seem to have any deductible behaviour.
Possible answers (depending how it is coded) could be:
(a sliding window like a frequency limiter)
- it increases 1 credit each 720 ms (3600'(1hr) / 5000 (remaining calls)) without a request until reaching 5000, it decays to 0 otherwise. If we do 1 req. at the correct frequency, we should never lose 5000 calls., So we could spend them strategically: dispersed, cluttered, traffic-adapted.
(a limited sink recharging each hour)
with 5000 remaining, it decays 1 credit per request -no matter the frequency-, after 1 hour passed since that 1st request: it goes back to 5000
it renews to 5000 each 1 hour counting since the token was used to do the 1st request.
it decays 1 credit per request, and it goes to 5000 in a time fixed hour, like at 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00...
I'm using jInstagram 1.1.7.
