Authenticate to the HireHop API with a per-user token and stay within its rate limits
domain: hirehop.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
In HireHop, go to Settings > Users, select the user you want a token for, click Menu, and choose API Token — ideally a dedicated 'API' user rather than a real staff login.
Send the token as a GET parameter, POST parameter, in the JSON POST body, or as the X-TOKEN header on every request.
Target one of HireHop's three interchangeable API hosts: hirehop.net, myhirehop.com, or myhirehop.co.uk.
Track the X-Request-Count and X-RateLimit-Available response headers to stay under the documented limit of 60 requests per minute and/or 3 per second.
On a 429 response (or HireHop error code 327), back off — HireHop recommends a five-second delay between cycles if you must loop requests.
Known gotchas
A token never expires on its own, but becomes invalid if that user logs in again or changes their email/password — using a dedicated API-only user avoids accidental token invalidation.
The API is versioned via a 'version' parameter (currently 1.3); omitting it gets you the latest version, which can change field behavior between integrations built at different times.
Errors are minimal JSON like {"error":3}; the human-readable meaning of each numeric code lives in HireHop's language files (e.g. /lang/en-US.js), not in the main API doc body.
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