iTunes Search API 403 Errors

Anyone else noticing a high rate of 403 responses from the iTunes Search API without exceeding the approximate rate limit?


I've been seeing this for about 10 days now. I have a caching system in place and am only sending requests to the API at a rate of ~4-6 requests per minute, well below the ~20 requests per minute limit mentioned in the API documentation. Unfortunately, about 50% of these requests fail with a 403.


Waiting on a response to a bug report, but wanted to see if anyone else was seeing this issue.

Yes, they introuced a rate limiting system some time ago, I get nothing but 403's now.

iTunes Search API 403 Errors
 
 
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