[Question]: How to understand the number of API calls I'm making?

[dskarbrevik]

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As I'm testing out the functionality of various sdk features, I'm left wondering what kind of behavior will have me hitting rate limits and what will be fine.

Does the SDK have any utils to help me monitor the number of calls I'm making?

And one specific example question on this topic, if I make a StockBarsRequest() for 2 symbols, TimeFrame="Day" and start/end of 1 year.. is this 1 API call?.. or 2 API calls (1 per symbol)?.. or more because of the start/end length?

[LukeDickerson19]

+1, it'd be nice if alpaca-py provided access to the html headers X-Ratelimit-Limit, X-Ratelimit-Remaining, and X-Ratelimit-Reset, as described here.