specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: ShootProof
providerId: shootproof
created: '2026-07-04'
modified: '2026-07-04'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Photography
- Client Galleries
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  ShootProof's public Studio API guide (Guide > Errors) documents 400, 409,
  and 507 (Insufficient Storage - a plan-capacity error, not a rate-limit
  error) as its notable status codes, but does not publish a numeric
  requests-per-second/minute rate limit, a 429 Too Many Requests convention,
  or documented `Retry-After`/rate-limit response headers as of the review
  date. Access tokens are Bearer tokens issued via three-legged OAuth 2.0 and
  are valid for two weeks (1,209,600 seconds); refresh tokens are used to
  obtain new access tokens without user interaction.
notes: >-
  No numeric per-account or per-endpoint throttling limits are documented.
  Batch endpoints (e.g. batch update/delete of events, albums, photos, price
  sheet items) exist across the API specifically to reduce request volume for
  bulk operations, which suggests request volume is a practical concern even
  though no fixed cap is published. Verify current throttling behavior with
  ShootProof support (support@shootproof.com) before building high-volume
  integrations.
sources:
- https://developer.shootproof.com/guide/errors/
- https://developer.shootproof.com/guide/authorization/
- https://developer.shootproof.com/guide/
- https://developer.shootproof.com/oas/studio.json
responseCodes:
  throttled: not published
limits:
- name: Studio API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Studio API.
- name: Access Token Lifetime
  scope: token
  metric: seconds
  limit: '1209600'
  notes: OAuth 2.0 access tokens last two weeks (14 days); refresh tokens obtain new access tokens thereafter.
- name: Storage / Active Photo Capacity
  scope: account
  metric: photos_and_bytes
  limit: per subscription plan
  notes: Exceeding a plan's active-photo/storage allowance returns HTTP 507 Insufficient Storage rather than a rate-limit error.
- name: Batch Operation Size
  scope: request
  metric: items
  limit: not published per call, but batch endpoints exist for events/albums/photos/price-sheet items/groups
  notes: Batch PATCH/DELETE endpoints let clients update or remove many resources in a single call instead of looping per-item requests.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Not formally documented; standard practice is exponential backoff with jitter on 5xx responses and re-authentication on 401.
- name: Token Rotation
  description: Access and refresh tokens must be treated like a user's password and encrypted at rest per the Authorization guide.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com