generated: '2026-07-26'
method: searched
source: >-
  Commercial Listings API overview, "Rate Limiting" section, published in the
  harvested OpenAPI info.description
  (openapi/rightmove-commercial-listings-openapi.yml) and rendered at
  https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/docs/property-feed-api-product/1/overview
summary: >-
  Rightmove documents that the Commercial Listings API is rate limited and that
  the quota window resets every 60 seconds, but does NOT publish the quota
  value — it varies per environment and per endpoint and is set by the
  Rightmove Data Feed Team. No numeric limit is therefore recorded here. The
  Real Time Data Feed specification (v1.4.1) documents no rate limits at all.
apis:
- api: Rightmove Commercial Listings API
  enforced: true
  response_code: 429
  response_description: >-
    "This response will be presented when your quota has been exceeded." Declared
    on all four operations in the OpenAPI.
  window_seconds: 60
  window_note: The quota resets every 60 seconds.
  limit_count: null
  limit_note: >-
    Not published. "The specific number of allowed requests (the quota value) may
    vary per environment (e.g. staging vs. production) and per endpoint." Higher
    limits are negotiated with adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk.
  headers:
    retry_after: unconfirmed
    rate_limit_headers: unconfirmed
    note: >-
      The docs say "While not explicitly detailed in the OpenAPI for this
      endpoint, APIs often include headers in 429 responses like Retry-After ...
      Check the response headers" — i.e. Rightmove does not commit to emitting
      Retry-After or X-RateLimit-* headers. Callers must not depend on them.
  client_guidance: >-
    Wait before retrying; exponential backoff is the documented recommendation.
  enforced_by: Google Apigee (the API is fronted by Apigee; the portal org is
    rightmove-pd-preprod-apigee)
- api: Rightmove Real Time Data Feed API
  enforced: unknown
  limit_count: null
  limit_note: >-
    The RTDF v1.4.1 specification documents no request quota, no 429 handling and
    no throttling policy. Volume expectations are agreed with the Data Feed Team
    during the supervised testing phase.