turns out that the API i'm working with has a per minute rate limit; how do i configure that on airbyte connectors

Hi @Enrico Tuvera Jr., if your source api responses respect the standards it will send responses with 429 HTTP status code. When this kind of response is received the

HttpStream.should_retry

function will return True and will use the value returned by

YourStream.backoff_time

to sleep before next request. In other words: you need to implement a

backoff_time

function in your stream class to return the desired sleep time. If your API 429 responses provides

X-Retry-After

it can help you dynamically define the sleep time. If your API does not use 429 statuses to inform of the rate limiting you need to also implement a custom

should_retry

function. Feel free to check the implementation of the base HttpStream class to understand how it works by default.