# How often can I poll the API for full subscribers/followers lists? **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [February 12, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754 "2016-02-12T16:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danbrakeley](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/danbrakeley/32/959_2.png) [@danbrakeley](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/danbrakeley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/1 "2016-02-12T16:11:31Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Without relying on the chat notification, what would be the best way to go about polling subs?](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/without-relying-on-the-chat-notification-what-would-be-the-best-way-to-go-about-polling-subs/1835/6): > [@Without relying on the chat notification, what would be the best way to go about polling subs?](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/without-relying-on-the-chat-notification-what-would-be-the-best-way-to-go-about-polling-subs/1835/6): > > Do you by chance know the exact limit of how often i can poll it? Paginating trough it with one minute delay in between worked, at least it didnt throw me limitation error or ban me even. Did you ever get an answer on that? I would like to do the same thing, also every minute, but have been worried about getting all pages of the list every 60 seconds. Ideally I’d like to do the same for followers, although I care a lot less about that. ---
**Author:** ![Kinsi](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/kinsi/32/2537_2.png) [@Kinsi](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Kinsi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/2 "2016-02-12T16:25:15Z")
Although i didnt, my current solution loads all subscriber pages (about 10 in my case) every 120 seconds with no delay in between the different pages. Some times i get an empty result so keep that in mind and add proper error handling. ---
**Author:** ![danbrakeley](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/danbrakeley/32/959_2.png) [@danbrakeley](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/danbrakeley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/3 "2016-02-12T19:42:09Z")
By empty result, do you mean you get a valid 200 status code, but then the body is empty? Or the body is valid, but the `subscriptions` array has 0 elements (and/or `_total` is 0)? Or are you getting a non-200 status code? ---
**Author:** ![Kinsi](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/kinsi/32/2537_2.png) [@Kinsi](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Kinsi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/4 "2016-02-12T19:43:21Z")
I infact dont exactly know anymore, but i just compare the \_total variable that i get in the reply with the actually parsed amount of subs. If the difference is no more than 98% i continue w/ evaluating the gotten data. ---
**Author:** ![danbrakeley](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/danbrakeley/32/959_2.png) [@danbrakeley](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/danbrakeley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/5 "2016-02-12T19:55:41Z")
WOW. That’s exciting. Thanks for the heads up! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-often-can-i-poll-the-api-for-full-subscribers-followers-lists/4754/6 "2016-03-13T19:55:53Z")
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