Parseur
DOCS & KNOWLEDGE · FILES & DOCS
Mailboxes, parsed documents and the fields they produced, and templates in that account.
Connecting Parseur in practice
Parseur throttles by IP address rather than by API key — 5 requests per second with a burst of 20 — and its own documentation warns that concurrent browser tabs on the same address draw on that same allowance. Lists page 25 records at a time by default, and a webhook endpoint has to answer 2xx within 30 seconds or the delivery counts as failed.
Rate limits
- 5 requests per second per IP with a burst of 20, per the current developer documentation.
- Default page size 25 records; override with page_size, for example /parser?page=2&page_size=50.
- Webhooks must return a 2xx status within 30 seconds.
- Higher limits are an Enterprise-plan arrangement rather than a self-service setting.
Worth knowing
- Because the counter is per IP, several integrations behind one NAT or one CI runner share a single 5-per-second budget and throttle each other.
- The older help-centre API article is marked "no longer maintained" and redirects to developer.parseur.com; the two pages disagree on the burst allowance (50 versus 20), so treat the developer site as current.
- Documents are addressed through their mailbox (/mailboxes/<mailbox_id>/docs), so an agent needs the mailbox id before it can read anything.
- Filtering is by received_after and received_before in yyyy-mm-dd form only, so there is no finer-grained incremental cursor than a day.
Checked against Parseur developer documentation (2026-09-29), Use Parseur document parsing API (2026-09-29)
What an agent can do
Each action is granted on its own. An agent allowed to read is not thereby allowed to write, and the scope beside each row is what the acting user must have connected for it to run at all.
Often connected alongside
Put Parseur behind one governed endpoint.
Same permissions, same audit trail, whatever else you connect next.