I am not much of a coder but I have a single spreadsheet in my google docs that interacts with a website's API to pull quantitative data and display it in a helpful way. My problem is I keep reaching my urlfetch quota from google without ever accessing the spreadsheet. As in, the limit is reached upon waking up in the morning, at some point throughout the day the quota resets and I might load the spreadsheet once or twice, then by next morning the quota is reached again.
I can't imagine I am personally reaching the 20k limit. The spreadsheet is literally a dozen cells with numbers, nothing fancy here. My best guess is the problem has something to do with the fact I copied this spreadsheet from another user (who shared it with many, many others). But I was under the impression that the quota was gmail-account specific, so that should not matter?
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we use a custom script to retrieve data from Bookeo API with UrlFetchApp.fetch. µ
Everything went well but today, we have the following error "Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch"
We are aware of the limitation of 20.000 calls/day as mentionned here https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/quotas, but we don't think that we come close to this (maybe 1.000 - 1.500/day max)
The portion of the code where the error happen is
var responseBooking = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlBooking);
So i'm sure it's related to quota issue
The weird thing is it's working like 1 time / 5-6 try
My questions are :
has Google changed it's quota limitation? (I didn't see any communication about it)
Is there a way to see how many calls was made for each service?
Is there a sort of chat for technical support for Google Apps Script?
Answer(s):
has Google changed it's quota limitation? (I didn't see any communication about it)
No.
Is there a way to see how many calls was made for each service?
No.
Is there a sort of chat for technical support for Google Apps Script?
No.
More Information:
Aside from the 20,000 calls/day limit, there are also limits which restrict the number of calls in short periods of time.
The quota works based on a rolling average of service invocations. You have a quota of 20,000 per day, but if you exceed the rate of ~0.231 calls per second (20,000/86,400) for a sustained period of time, you can still trigger an error.
You can rectify this by waiting for a while so that the impulse of invocations goes down. I would also suggest adding some form of exponential backoff to your code to stop this from happening again in future.
References:
Quotas for Google Services | Apps Script | Google Developers
Exponential backoff - Wikipedia
This morning we got a couple of errors from Google Apps script saying:
Exception: Bandwidth quota exceeded...
Try reducing the rate of data transfer.
Our Google Apps Script (GAS) programs mainly look at Gmail, do some processing, access Google Maps some, and transfer data back and forth between GAS/GCP and an app hosted on another platform.
However, accessing Gmail doesn't seem to be what this is talking about. "Bandwidth quota" would seem to indicate too much data is being transferred into and out of the Google servers via Google Apps Script. We do transfer a fair amount of data back and forth to an app hosted on another platform on the Internet, such as Amazon Web Services.
However, we don't see that there is a "Bandwidth quota" on the Google Services Quotas page. AND around the time we got this error this morning, we weren't accessing Gmail nor transferring data back and forth outside of GCP any more than usual. Probably less.
Does anyone know what this quota is, where we can find it, and how we can possibly bump it up, even if we need to pay for it?
I looked at our Google Cloud Platform (CCP) Console Quotas (https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas) and we are well below any usage limit, and see none that are about a "Bandwidth Quota".
Thank you!
UPDATE 29 March 2022 - After more than a month of having zero of these messages, this evening we are seeing at least 10 of them. Some facts:
The "bandwidth quota exceeded" errors are only happening when calling the APIs for one particular external app hosted on AWS-like servers. They do not occur when calling drive, maps, etc. or any other APIs.
Today has been a lower-volume day & evening for our app than many are. So, this makes no sense why we would get these errors this evening and not other days.
we use a custom script to retrieve data from Bookeo API with UrlFetchApp.fetch. µ
Everything went well but today, we have the following error "Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch"
We are aware of the limitation of 20.000 calls/day as mentionned here https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/quotas, but we don't think that we come close to this (maybe 1.000 - 1.500/day max)
The portion of the code where the error happen is
var responseBooking = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlBooking);
So i'm sure it's related to quota issue
The weird thing is it's working like 1 time / 5-6 try
My questions are :
has Google changed it's quota limitation? (I didn't see any communication about it)
Is there a way to see how many calls was made for each service?
Is there a sort of chat for technical support for Google Apps Script?
Answer(s):
has Google changed it's quota limitation? (I didn't see any communication about it)
No.
Is there a way to see how many calls was made for each service?
No.
Is there a sort of chat for technical support for Google Apps Script?
No.
More Information:
Aside from the 20,000 calls/day limit, there are also limits which restrict the number of calls in short periods of time.
The quota works based on a rolling average of service invocations. You have a quota of 20,000 per day, but if you exceed the rate of ~0.231 calls per second (20,000/86,400) for a sustained period of time, you can still trigger an error.
You can rectify this by waiting for a while so that the impulse of invocations goes down. I would also suggest adding some form of exponential backoff to your code to stop this from happening again in future.
References:
Quotas for Google Services | Apps Script | Google Developers
Exponential backoff - Wikipedia
I have been putting out fires all day. Can't seem to make heads or tails of this error...
Today I started for the first time after months of using the same script. It is triggered when a new record is added to a google sheet.
It seems to work on and off but every few minutes I am getting a failure notice indicating "Service using too much computer time for one day".
Looking through the documentation and the post on Stack, it is clear I am not the first to deal with this issue, but there does not seem to be any concise answer to how to resolve. I looked for some way to reach some type of google assistance but am always directed back to stack overflow to submit my issue for consideration. Understand this could be an issue with my script, but cant seem to find what might be causing this issue. Also confusing the matter is that the script does seem to be firing 90% of the time.
My questions:
How do I check the "computer time" quota?
Should I turn off that script/trigger until 24 hours have passed?
Does anyone know how to get a hold of Google support directly?
I don't know of any way that the total script run time can be seen in a dashboard.
You can see duration times of individual script executions at:
https://script.google.com/home/executions
You could scroll through your executions to look for long durations times. That might indicate an endless loop in your code.
To calculate the total run time of all your running scripts, you'd need to use the Apps Script API.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/api/how-tos/view-processes
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/api/concepts/processes
I don't have any code to list and compile all the durations.
If anyone does, that would be very interesting.
I don't know if deleting the trigger until the next day would gain you anything. I'm guessing that it shouldn't.
Google does not provide "on demand" support people to answer questions about Apps Script. Even G Suite customers don't get "on demand" support contacts for Apps Script. You can report bugs and request features through the Google Issue Tracker, but that won't get you direct contact with a Google support person. Even if you purchase a support plan, Google doesn't have people who are designated to support Apps Script. If you purchased a support plan, they might try to help you with an Apps Script question, but officially they aren't qualified to help, or obligated to provide Apps Script support. And even if a support person tries to help you with an Apps Script problem, the first thing they'll do is a search of Stack Overflow, and give you links to SO posts.
So, it's extremely unlikely that you're going to be able to talk with someone directly at Google.
The best thing to do is to review your code for performance issues. Avoid reading the writing data often. The ideal situation is to get all the data that you need just once, process it, and write it back once. Cache data if you can. Avoid lots of calls to Properties Service. Find what part of your code is taking the longest time, and try to improve it.
Google lists a maximum of 50 concurrent users allowed edit permission at once in a shared spreadsheet
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2494827?hl=en&rd=1
I've got a Google Spreadsheet that will have a large number of potential editors at any moment and am concerned about idle users filling up the 50 cap and blocking edits from fresh logons. There's a lot of interaction with the data that discourages me from using Forms submissions, and there would be a large bound script to the document.
Is there an idle timeout function that can be called through the spreadsheet's bound script that will close the document or set an idle user to view only status? This is in a Google Apps for Business domain.
This is a question that was asked very often 6 years ago on the old Google product forum when I began to work with Google spreadsheets.
Strangely the question disappeared after a while and never came back (until today !)
There are two main reasons for this question to disappear :
Since Google spreadsheets are a representation of a documents hosted on a distant server, we can not interact with what happens in another user browser from a script that runs on this distant server
I suppose this is rarely an issue and that in most case it was mainly a theoretical question that vanished in real use. (but that is really a supposition, I admit...)
As far as I know there is no practical solution to avoid that situation.