Getting 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS

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In this code snippet below:

query_params = {
            "q": query,
            "safesearch": "0",
            "format": "json",
            "language": "en",
            "engines": "bing,duckduckgo,google,startpage,yandex",
        }


        async with session.get(f"{self.base_url}/search", params=query_params) as response:
            if response.status != 200:
                raise Exception(f"{response.reason}")
            data = await response.json()

I keep getting response.reason set to 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS

I have tried to set settings.yml:

# see https://docs.searxng.org/admin/settings/settings.html#settings-use-default-settings
use_default_settings: true
server:
  # base_url is defined in the SEARXNG_BASE_URL environment variable, see .env and docker-compose.yml
  secret_key: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  # change this!
  limiter: false  # can be disabled for a private instance (default: true)
  image_proxy: true
  public_instance: false
ui:
  static_use_hash: true
redis:
  url: redis://redis:6379/0

search:
  format:
    - html
    - json

rate_limit:
  enabled: false
  window: 10      # Keep a 10-second window for consistency
  limit: 300      # Increase allowed requests to 300 per window (~30 requests/second)

botdetection: false

And limiter.toml:

# This configuration file updates the default configuration file
# See https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/limiter.toml

[botdetection.ip_limit]
# activate link_token method in the ip_limit method
link_token = false # disable link_token method

But nothing seems to fix the 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS.
FYI: I am self-hosting the server.