Hello Temla,

There were no changes to the library that could cause this but there may be 
server-side changes that affected system thresholds.

We don't know exact number of calls allowed before captcha is triggered 
(and this number can change at any time).


-Danial, AdWords API Team.



On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 12:42:25 PM UTC+4, Temla wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the answer. I'm aware about the token lifetime and that we 
> should reuse them. But the code I'm using has been
> working for weeks and suddenly it's not working. I have never had 
> a CaptchaRequiredError before and the amount of requests are the same.
>
> So I guess this is probably a something wrong with the the client library 
> (ruby) I'm using or just my own misstake. Anyway, I thought it was strange 
> that
> Hudarsono Hu experienced the same *behaviour* all of a sudden.
>
> Do you know anything about requests per minute?
>
> Regards
>
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 5:53:54 AM UTC+2, Anash P. Oommen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Oliver, Yoshi,
>>
>> The CaptchaRequiredError is raised by ClientLogin API. ClientLogin API 
>> tokens are long lived (typically 2 weeks), so ClientLogin expects that you 
>> reuse authTokens instead of generating a new one for every API call. 
>>
>> See  
>> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/bestpractices#auth_tokens
>>  for 
>> additional details.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Anash P. Oommen,
>> AdWords API Advisor.
>>
>> On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 00:51:52 UTC+5:30, yoshi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Recently I get a lot of *CaptchaRequiredError*'s using the Adwords API. 
>>> I'm building an application that executes requests to the API frequently
>>> using the Ruby client library. I'm using ClientLogin as authentication 
>>> method and version v201206 of the API.
>>>
>>> All I do is creating an instance of 
>>> AdwordsApi::Api.new(my_hash_with_settings) and reuse it for every request.
>>>
>>> Earlier this hasn't been a problem until now. Even if I dont touch 
>>> the authtoken endpoint for every request (which I believe I don't) is there 
>>> still
>>> a request/second limit that also raises the *CaptchaRequiredError*? By 
>>> the way, I get the same error in SANDBOX environment.
>>>
>>> I don't know how to debug this since I havent' change anything. And I 
>>> send the same amount of request now as then.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>

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