Question

Does anyone know if Bing limits the number of requests an application can have for the Image Search API? I looked through the terms and couldn’t find anything but the wording that they ‘reserve’ the right to do so. My application would pull several images for each user – so there could potentially be a lot of requests. Any feedback?

Zach

Answer 1

It’s not clear whether this is actually enforced but the guidelines say

“[You must] Restrict your usage to
less than 7 queries per second (QPS)
per IP address. You may be permitted
to exceed this limit under some
conditions, but this must be approved
through discussion with
[e-mail].”

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440746.aspx