How can I poll the OneNote API frequently without hitting rate limits?

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I have a use case where I need to poll the OneNote API approximately every minute in order to respond to text added to pages by the user.

(Aside: I'd LOVE to use webhooks to get notifications only when something changes, but that's only supported for consumer notebooks at this time, as far as I can tell.)

Polling with this frequency works for a few users (5 or so), but then, with more users who authorized the same Microsoft application, the app seems to hit an application-level rate limit and begins receiving 429 Too Many Requests responses.

How can I ensure polling will still work as the number of users grows? And are there any rate limits that can be made public or shared in confidence for valid use cases?

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You can submit an request in the user voice or contact the official support. The rate limit cannot fixed by coding now. – Seiya Su
@SeiyaSu thank you. According to developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/support, Stack Overflow does seem to be the channel for Graph API "official support", no? Is there another channel I should use? – jgaul
If you have see developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/support, you will see it just redirect us to UserVoice(Feature request) or StackOverflow(question) to, so no other official support channel now.Some PG guys will answer the question in StackOverflow too – Seiya Su
Since OneNote notebooks are folders and sections are files, is it possible to register for OneDrive webhooks and on receiving a notification only poll pages in the updated section? – codeye

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So it is possible to register for webhooks on the sharepoint notebooks as onedrive items - as a notebook page gets updated the notificationUrl fires and you can then using delta calls to determine which sections (section.one files) have been updated.
I would then use the onenote-api to get the pages in the updated notebook sections
GET https://www.onenote.com/api/v1.0/me/notes/sections/{id}/pages

An alternative would be to treat the sharepoint drive as a webdav server and use the propfind method with the getlastmodified property to poll the drive determine which sections of various notebooks have been updated.

But I agree it would be easier if onenote webhooks were extended to sharepoint.