Ok so I've stumbled into this again. Now I'm making one request every 4 seconds exactly. That's an average of less than the claimed 25000 per day, at exact equally spaced intervals, and I still start getting 403 responses (with the image indicating usage limit exceeded) after a few tens of requests. There's no way you can do 25000 requests in a day. Not from a single IP.
Now that I think about it, the stated limit is not bullshit, it's nonsense. It says "per application per day". There's no conceivable way to enforce a per application limit when an API key is not needed. There is clearly some per-ip limit (I can do a bunch of new requests if I change my IP) and multiple time windows, the smallest being of the order of a minute or a few seconds. The question is, is this documented ANYWHERE? Can I know how many seconds I have to wait between a request and another in order to get 4000 succesful requests one after the other at regular intervals from the same IP? El dimarts 21 d’agost de 2012 22:33:43 UTC+2, barryhunter va escriure: > > Just because you get that many in a day, does not mean you can use it > all in the span of a few hours. > > You need to spread the requests over the whole day. Pretend its its > 1041 every hour, if you want help visualizing how it works. I dont > think its actully implemented as a 1 hour window (just like it's not > actully a 24 hour window, or at least there are multiple windows) > > Also note is per IP address, not per key or per domain or similar. > Beware that you are not sharing your IP address with other users. > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to: > https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ > > > > "The Google Static Maps API has the following usage limits: > > 25 000 free static map requests per application per day." > > > > Now, that's bullshit. I've done a few hundred requests, maybe a couple > of > > thousands, but NOT EVEN CLOSE to 25000, within a few minutes, and I'm > > already getting the 403 response with the image indicating exceeded > usage > > limit. > > > > So is there some other limit that is not documented? Perhaps a maximum > of > > requests per hour or per minute? Any other undocumented restriction? > > > > Or maybe I'm getting a bogus response for some other kind of error which > is > > not really a usage limit issue? > > > > When will I be able to do requests again after that? 24 hours? > > > > thanks > > m. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Google Maps API V2" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
