Hello Charles, I'm investigating this with engineering, so could you please send us your client customer ID via *Reply privately to author*? Also, do you still face this situation consistently for everyday's peak time?
Thanks. Thanet, AdWords API Team On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 6:09:17 AM UTC+9, Charles Michael wrote: > > Hi, I am the only developer with access to the API, so scenario #2 is > applicable. My main issue is that the retry after 30 seconds isn't actually > valid, it seems to be much longer and I can't really code a throttle if the > time being reported is inaccurate. The advice from the pages linked > basically says to wait 30 seconds, but when I do, I get the same error > right away. I don't want to trigger a longer ban, so I've instituted a halt > on my script when there's a rate exceeded error. Based on the load volume > you mentioned, that would make sense why I can run my script at night > without problems, but I should still be able to access it during peak hours > as well. Since the weekend is coming up, I'll give it a shot with a longer > sleeper in place, but it would be great to actually get an accurate figure > on how long to throttle the script by as the suggestion by google's api of > waiting 30 seconds isn't accurate. > > > > > On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 4:30:13 PM UTC-4, Vishal Vinayak (Adwords > API Team) wrote: >> >> Hi Charles, >> >> I can recommend a couple things: >> >> 1) Since the rateScope is ACCOUNT, could you confirm if your AdWords >> account is being accessed via another developer token or OAuth credentials >> (could be through another MCC that the AdWords account is linked to)? >> 2) If #1 is false, i.e. you are the only entity accessing your AdWords >> account in your application, I would recommend slowing down the number of >> requests that you send per second by following some of the strategies >> mentioned on this page >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/rate-limits#take_control> >> . >> >> Also, the number of queries that you can send to the API per second >> varies dynamically based on the current load on the servers. Hence you >> might see this error only during peak hours and the application might seem >> to work normally otherwise. >> >> Regards, >> Vishal, AdWords API Team >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/6e645164-e46e-4132-b0f4-e084d083e63b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
