LinkedIn REST API: Throttle Limit for resource 'Search People' reached at 409 of 100k

Question

I have a program that searches LinkedIn members by their first and last names, for academic research purposes.

I have a LinkedIn developer account that is supposed to have 100k calls to the relevant 'Search People' resource per day, but at only 400+ (see stats below) the API call throws exceptions, saying that "Throttle limit for calls to this resource is reached".

How is this possible where my limit is so much higher?

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LinkedIn statistics from their website:

API Usage Report for beginning 23 Jan 2013 midnight UTC till now

Resource: Search People

Usage: Call Count: 409 Allowed: 100000

Status: OK (green tick)

Throttled Members: 1 (List of Throttled Members for Search People: Idb_YiFpOs)

Answer 1

The total application limit is 100K, that's right. But there is also a user limit, and a developer limit, where the limit for the developer is 400 calls per 24 hours, this is why you're being throttled.

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/throttle-limits , check the "People Search" section.