API Reference

Error Handling

Map API errors to retries, user actions, and billing guidance.

Overview

Error responses are stable and machine-readable. Drive behavior using status code plus structured detail payloads.

What You Will Learn

  • When to retry automatically vs require user action.
  • Billing, quota, and plan-limit failure patterns.
  • Validation errors for payload limits and field constraints.

Implementation Checklist

  • Handle 400 validation errors with field-level feedback.
  • Handle 401/403 auth and permission errors with account remediation.
  • Handle 402 billing and quota errors by linking billing actions.
  • Retry only transient 5xx errors with capped exponential backoff.

Relevant Endpoints

POST
/v1/pins

Validation, billing, and upstream publish errors.

POST
/v1/schedules

Schedule validation and state errors.

GET
/v1/billing/status

Explain billing and quota state in-product.

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