TE Product Data API

1.0.x
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Security and Rate Limits

1. Security

The TE Product Data API requires all requests to include Client ID and Client secret request headers according to the following format:

client_id: [client-id]

client_secret: [client-secret]

The HTTP request containing the Client ID and Client secret request headers is shown below:

GET /api/v1/product_api/product_categories HTTP/1.1
client_id: [substitute client-id here]
client_secret: [substitute client-secret here]
Host: api.te.com

The Client ID and Client secret are the security credentials assigned to your client application. These credentials are used to authenticate and authorize your request similar to a User ID and Password. Details of how to obtain your Client ID and Client Secret can be found in the Getting Started page.

1.1 Unauthorized Access

If the Client ID and/or Client Secret are invalid, the following HTTP Response will be returned.

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
WWW-Authenticate: Client-ID-Enforcement
Content-Length: 31
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:42:02 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

{
  "error": "Invalid Client"
}

2. Rate Limits

The TE Product Data API is rate limited at 30 requests per minute and 5,000 requests per day...this is specified in the Standard SLA Tier. Any messages beyond the maximum limit are rejected. Enforcement is based on the Client ID/Client secret passed in the request.

The API will return the following X-RateLimit-* headers in the HTTP Response

X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4977
X-RateLimit-Reset: 86382593

X-RateLimit-Limit defines the number of requests allowed.
X-RateLimit-Remaining defines the remaining number of requests (count).
X-RateLimit-Reset defines the time in milliseconds before the remaining rate count is reset.

The following response will be generated in the event the API rate limit is exceeded

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-RateLimit-Limit: 30
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
X-RateLimit-Reset: 10876
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:07:34 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: Transfer-Encoding

{
  "error": "Quota has been exceeded"
}

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