title: Why am I blocked from using the discord api?
body: <p>Im coding a discord bot and I got this error randomly. From what I can interpret, I am temporarily blocked from discord.py api, but what does the &quot;exceeding rate limits part mean?&quot;</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>discord.errors.HTTPException: 429 Too Many Requests (error code: 0):
  You are being blocked from  accessing our API temporarily due to
  exceeding our rate limits frequently. Please read our docs at
  <a href="https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limits" rel="noreferrer">https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limits</a> to prevent this
  moving forward.</p>
  </blockquote>