GSpread Error 429

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Error I am getting when clearing and then updating 15 Sheets. Roughly 1000 rows and 10 columns for each in a loop.

Do i need to add a backoff is there a way around this?

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[lavigne958]

Hi we recently introduced a new BackOffClient and a way to use it in gspread with almost no changes.

You can now use the following code to make any requests go through the back-off client. The client will retry exponentially until it reaches some limits to make sure the client is not stuck in a loop.

use the following syntax:

gc = gspread.service_account(client_factory=BackoffClient)

or

gc = gspread.oauth(client_factory=BackoffClient)

closing this issue.

[burnash]

Yeah, I’ve started getting 429 recently while running the test suite and implemented a derived Client class very similar to the monkey patched in dbdf85a386b6aecac52ec168420f2307409ef307

I haven’t yet made up my mind if this should be the default behavior in gspread. The problem is that it may not be clear to gspread users how many requests each method produces (see #770) which may lead to inefficient code that fetches values from single cells in a loop.

The OP says:

Roughly 1000 rows and 10 columns for each in a loop.

@AETDDraper could you please share a snippet of the code you’re running?