OAuth requests from Zeto app get throttled
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Hello, I'm developing a social media type webiste and I wanted Wikipedia as the primary login. Its a simple login.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/9df21ca4b4e9b7d731fa93b1c54d45f6

Anyways, it hit the rate limit when a few users were trying it out. Could I please have a higher rate limit?

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@Rtconner: Hi, how is this website related to Wikimedia? Where to find its user data policy or privacy policy?
I am unsure if this use is in scope for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OAuth_app_guidelines and https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_API_Usage_Guidelines if there was no relation to Wikimedia (and likely the docs could be clearer about that).
From looking at https://zeto.zip/login, I assume that Wikimedia is one of the available authentication options?
Also, how many requests do you expect?

Aklapper renamed this task from Higher rate limit request to Higher OAuth rate limit (tier) request for external website.Feb 19 2026, 8:11 AM

Probably you are not setting a sensible user agent and so the requests get throttled aggressively. See https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy

I am unsure if this use is in scope for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OAuth_app_guidelines and https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_API_Usage_Guidelines if there was no relation to Wikimedia (and likely the docs could be clearer about that).

For sure, it's an OAuth app registered on Meta-Wiki, and it makes requests to Wikimedia APIs.

Tgr renamed this task from Higher OAuth rate limit (tier) request for external website to OAuth requests from Zeto app get throttled.Feb 19 2026, 12:43 PM

Turns out this was all caused by the other issue : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T417839

Sorry. This can be closed. I will also add better User-Agent per the docs also.