Blockchain Data API Key

[buu700]

I was told by Blockchain.com support to submit my question as a GitHub issue to get the attention of the core maintainers, who would be better equipped to answer my question.

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On blockchain.com/api, it's stated that an API key can be used to bypass the rate limit. However, the Blockchain Data API documentation doesn't contain any instructions for using an API key. I made a guess based on the Receive Payments API doc that adding it as a query string parameter called key would work, but when doing this I still got flagged for a rate limit violation.

Can you confirm whether this was the correct way to use the key with this API, or if there's even intended to be a way to bypass the rate limit with this API? If what I did was supposed to work, did I run into a bug, or is there still another higher undocumented rate limit that I need to comply with?

[levithomason]

I see the rate limit is 1,200 requests per minute for the WS API, however, what is the limit for the Data API?