Google Book API Error "429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url"

Question

I have a list of authors and I wanted to retrieve books information based on the name. However, I keep getting this error after a few successfully retrieved items.

429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for URL...

I have 20k quotes per day, and 100 per minute per user.

try:
    key= "**********************************"
    api = f'https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q={author}&key={key}'
    response = requests.get(api)
    response.raise_for_status()
    print(response)
except requests.RequestException as e: 
    raise sys.exit(e)

You hit a rate limit. Print out the body it could contain additional information. — Klaus D., Nov 11 '21 at 22:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '21 at 08:34

The HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response status code indicates that your application has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

The best course of action is to slow your application down and make fewer requests. This request is most likely retriable so I would put a sleep in your code to wait a bit and then try the same request again.

Google Book API Error "429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url"

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