API rate limits on searches

Hi there,

We're currently using the Zotero API to allow users to import & update a Zotero library into our application. We'd like to improve on this integration to search the library (using the quick-search `q` parameter) as the users are inserting their citations, rather than having to import the whole library up-front.

This will undoubtably require more API requests than we're currently sending, so I wanted to check in if there were any hard or soft limits we need to stay clear of.

I've seen https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/60190/api-rate-limit already which says to respect Backoff and Retry-After headers, but we'd rather not run into those limits too often as it would degrade the service.

Could we reasonably expect 100 reqs/min to work? All from a few servers but targeting many different libraries.
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