Connection refused by google sheets API, because daily quota reached - google-drive-api

Question

gspread.exceptions.APIError: {'code': 429, 'message': "Quota exceeded for quota group 'ReadGroup' and limit 'Read requests per user per 100 seconds' of service 'sheets.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:changedthis'.", 'status': 'RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED', 'details': [{'#type': 'type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help', 'links': [{'description': 'Google developer console API key', 'url': 'https://console.developers.google.com/project/changedthis/apiui/credential'}]}]}
My code sends data every 60 seconds and this only filling in 3 cells. Now I get the error at the start of my program. Do I wait for a few days or is this a permanent block?

Answer 1

This is related to the usage limit
As per the Sheets Documentation says There is no daily usage limit but limited requests per 100 seconds. If you are owner of a billing account you can increase this quota. Otherwise 500 requests per 100 seconds per project and 100 requests per 100 seconds per user are the limit.
As a workaround make use of different service accounts in order to reach 500 requests / 100 seconds.
Edit
Looking at your code these are the changes that are currently working (Take a look into the scopes, some of them are not necessary in this case, although I didn't modify them):
import gspread
import time
import datetime
from google.oauth2 import service_account
SCOPES = ["https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds", 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets',
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive"]
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE = 'creds.json'
#creds = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name("creds.json", scope)
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE, scopes=SCOPES)
creds = credentials.with_subject('user#yourdomain.com')
client = gspread.authorize(creds)
sheet = client.open_by_key("ID").sheet1 # Open the spreadsheet
i = 1
while True:
cell = sheet.cell(i, 1).value
i += 1
if len(cell) == 0: # of een manier om te kijken of de cell leeg is
print("Empty row has been found at row", (i-1))
break
# ofzo, als er geen begrenzing is en geen lege cell dan blijft deze lus maar doorgaan totdat sheet.cell(i, 1).value fout gaat denk ik
if i > 1000:
print("Did not find any empty rows")
break
while True:
x = str(datetime.datetime.now())
sheet.update_cell(i, 1, x) # Update one cell
time.sleep(60)
In order to make this work, you should activate the domain-wide authority
References
Sheets API Usage Limits
Resolve a 429 error: Too many requests