Does API throttling apply to GET endpoints only or to image URLs as well?

[djryanash]

Hello,

I’m doing a few API calls for an app I’m building on iOS and obviously want to stick to the limits of 60-100 requests per minute for the endpoints but I was wondering if that limit applies to URLs for images, for example:

https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/52352320/medium.jpg
https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/38287456/medium.jpeg
https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/5178924/medium.jpg
https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/255888777/medium.jpeg
https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/68705002/medium.jpeg
https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/84926871/medium.jpeg

It seems that about 20-25% of the images that I am interested in are stored on AWS while the majority are on naturalist.org so I was hoping that as these aren’t API endpoints and some are stored elsewhere that the data limits might not apply.

Anyone know about this?
Thanks,

Ryan
Hong Kong

[pisum]

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-fields-must-be-edited-through-api-to-alter-coordinates-of-an-observation/42958/7.

@djryanash

I was hoping that as these aren’t API endpoints

generally, i wouldn’t think of getting images as making API requests, unless you’re getting map tiles.