Facebook graph API rate limit and batch requests

Question

I\'ve seen the 600 calls / 600 seconds rate limit mentioned by some (e.g. on quora).

What I want to know is whether I am allowed to do 600 batch requests in 600 secs (a

Answer 1

From my experience, they count individual requests regardless the way they were made (in batch or not).

For example, if I'm trying to do 1 batch/sec containing 10 requests each, I soon get 'TOO MANY CALLS'.

If I'm doing 1 batch/10 sec, each batch containg 10 requests, I never see TOO MANY CALLS.

I personally do not see any reason to prefer batches over regular API calls.