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Posted: **December 21st, 2017, 4:24 pm**

Hello.

The API docs show how to set the speedlimit and I've been using this for a long time to automatically restrict the download speeds when other things on my LAN require more bandwidth, but my current method is quite 'dumb'. It just keeps enforcing preset limits without knowing if it needs to - it can't check to see if SABnzbd is already speed-limited.

Is there a way (other than getting the full queue output via the API) to check if SABnzbd is currently using a speedlimit? Some file I can check? It seems this is not recorded in the .ini file for SABnzbd.

Thank you.

Posted: **December 21st, 2017, 4:42 pm**

Hmmm, I think the API method is the only way!

Posted: **December 21st, 2017, 5:23 pm**

Okiedoke. Thanks @safihre.

Posted: **December 22nd, 2017, 8:22 pm**

Just a quick follow-up here. I checked out the API queue method and had this working in about 2 minutes:

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$ curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:8800/sabnzbd/api?mode=queue&apikey=<my key>&output=json' | jq -r '.queue.speedlimit'
55.3

This is exactly what I'm after.

Posted: **December 23rd, 2017, 2:33 am**

Nice. Never heard of that command to parse json!

Posted: **December 23rd, 2017, 2:40 am**

It's saved me a lot of time.

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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