Google Photos API 429 Too Many Requests

[aldo-leka]

I get a 429 error (Too Many Requests) when using the slideshow from Google Photos. With what account are the photos fetched, because I couldn’t see any related project in my Google Developer Console. I tried to check the Quota tab because apparently there’s a 75000 requests limit per project per day which, as I calculated, with 5 seconds intervals photos slideshow shouldn’t surpass the limit.

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[mvysny]

Hi, thank you for letting me know! Yeah, unfortunately the quotas are project-specific, rather than user-specific. That means that the following quota is valid for all PhotoCloud users:

The quota limit for requests to the Library API is 10,000 requests per project per day.

The quota limit for requests to access media bytes (by loading a photo or video from a base URL) is 75,000 requests per project per day.

https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/api-limits-quotas

I need to figure out whether it's possible to raise the quota limit...

[mvysny]

There is a partner's program which may increase the quota here: https://developers.google.com/photos/partner-program/overview I'll apply, let's see where that will lead to.

[mvysny]

I've applied, send the screenshots, waiting for Google to review and reply.

[mvysny]

I've hopefully became a Google Partner, which should lift the limits quite a bit. Can you please confirm that you're no longer getting this issue, or are you still getting this bug?

[naisanzaa]

I've hopefully became a Google Partner, which should lift the limits quite a bit. Can you please confirm that you're no longer getting this issue, or are you still getting this bug?

did you get approved for the program?

[mvysny]

Google is now reviewing my request for public access, but it will take some time. Quoting google:

External apps that request sensitive or restricted user data must first be verified by Google. This process may take 4-6 weeks

Let’s hope that the process will take faster than 4-6 weeks.

Once the app is approved, I'll release a new version of PhotoCloud to Google Play.

[mvysny]

Fuck. I may have figured out what the problem is.

In order for PhotoCloud to access Google Drive/Google Photos, you need to create a project in Google Cloud, then head to APIs and create a Oauth 2.0 Client ID, which then links the Google Cloud access with PhotoCloud.

The problem is that I did that with my old e-mail address martin.vysny2@gmail.com. I had to nuke that e-mail since its in-app payments/billing profile was registered to Slovakia, and I moved to Finland but Google is unable to change the billing country and so I had to create a new user and transfer everything there (!!!!!).

However, apparently Google didn't delete everything, because now when I try to create the OAuth 2.0 Client ID in my new project owned by martin.vysny3@gmail.com, Google fails with:

Ownership verification failed

The request failed because the Android package name and fingerprint are already in use

Request ID: 6499439294717751697

When I googled for the error message, people suggested to change the fingerprint, but I don't want to do that since I have a huge existing user base and the app could break for them.

I tried to get help at Google Cloud but unless I pay big buck, I'll hit an unpenetrable wall of chat-bots that just ask their canned questions, which is completely unhelpful.

Then I found https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6401008 and it told me to reach to Firebase support centre, so I'm trying to do that, but I don't have high hopes on solving this.

The bottom line is that Google fucking sucks balls. I just wasted 3 hours trying to fight the system, and I can't reach any human operator to help me out. Google documentation is utterly useless - it's long and contains zero information, one needs an AI to parse something useful out of that crap. At this point I don't want to touch anything since if something breaks again, I might lose even the tiny income I'm getting from this app.

So, unless miracle happens and the Firebase team can look into this, I will either:

• Display a huge warning that Google Drive/Google Photos will simply display "Google Photos API 429 Too Many Requests" and there's nothing I can do about it; OR
• I remove support for Google Photos and Google Drive from PhotoCloud completely.

Thank you Google, excellent job!

For the reference: if anyone is bugged with this:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32605834/google-play-services-error-with-generating-oauth2-0-client
• https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6401008?hl=en