Authentication problems for exporting query results: "too many attempts"

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Hi,

My application works as follows:

  1. I create a bunch of metabase questions;
  2. In a Wordpress platform, I get the result of these questions and show to my users. Its my own written dashboard.

In order to get the question results, I'm using metabase API, particularly this method: metabase/docs/api-documentation.md at master · metabase/metabase · GitHub

In order to use this method, I need to authenticate (although the question is set as public). In order to get a token, I use this method: metabase/docs/api-documentation.md at master · metabase/metabase · GitHub

The problem is: if several people want to navigate at the same time, I start to get authentication errors

Too many attempts! You must wait 24 seconds before trying again.

How can I solve this issue? Why do I need authentication to get the results of public embeddable question?

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Are you requesting a new token for each new API query result export request? If that’s the case I think I would try to come up with a way to cache and reuse it.

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Hi @jornh,

Thanks for the answer. No, the token is kept in a cookie.

I request a new token for each different visitor, which is already enough to get these errors.