Handle SmartRecruiters Posting/Customer API rate limits, concurrency limits, and offset pagination

domain: smartrecruiters.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Paginate list endpoints using offset and limit query params, reading totalFound from the response's ListResult wrapper (SmartRecruiters does not use page/pageSize).
  2. Watch the X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining response headers — most Customer API endpoints allow about 10 requests/sec.
  3. Note tighter per-endpoint limits: roughly 2 req/sec for job publication (POST/DELETE /jobs/{id}/publication) and offer-document downloads.
  4. Track concurrency separately via X-RateLimit-Concurrent-Limit/Remaining — most endpoints cap at 8 concurrent requests, but GET /candidates is capped at 1.
  5. For bulk data needs, use the Reporting API instead of paginating the Posting/Candidates API directly.
  6. Set client timeouts of 128 seconds or more and randomize request timing to avoid synchronized retry storms.

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