Calling `from_geocode` occasionally produces "list index out of range" error

I’ve been using gmplot to draw running routes (via tcx files). Until recently I could loop through a file list and generate the new html plots.

But now the loop will seemingly-spontaneously fail and generate the following error:

 40             'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="%s"' % location_string)
 41         geocode = json.loads(geocode.text)

—> 42 latlng_dict = geocode[‘results’][0][‘geometry’][‘location’] 43 return latlng_dict[‘lat’], latlng_dict[‘lng’] 44

IndexError: list index out of range

I was able to isolate it to the call for gmap = gmplot.GoogleMapPlotter.from_geocode("San Francisco")

For example, running the following code will result in throwing an error at some point (usually in the 8-14 range):

for i in range(25):
    print(i)
    gmap = gmplot.GoogleMapPlotter.from_geocode("San Francisco")

I can wrap it in a try/except but that merely delays the break.

My naive guess is that I’m breaking some API limit.

[sandrotosi]

fixed with:

@@ -34,14 +35,14 @@ class GoogleMapPlotter(object):
         self._infowindows = []
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_geocode(cls, location_string, zoom=13):
-        lat, lng = cls.geocode(location_string)
-        return cls(lat, lng, zoom)
+    def from_geocode(cls, location_string, apikey, zoom=13):
+        lat, lng = cls.geocode(location_string, apikey)
+        return cls(lat, lng, zoom, apikey)
 
     @classmethod
-    def geocode(self, location_string):
+    def geocode(self, location_string, apikey):
         geocode = requests.get(
-            'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="%s"' % location_string)
+            'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="%s"&key=%s' % (location_string, apikey))
         geocode = json.loads(geocode.text)
         latlng_dict = geocode['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
         return latlng_dict['lat'], latlng_dict['lng']

ie you’re forced to pass and API key (as gmaps forces you to)

[hlongmore]

Any chance this can get merged into the official release? Or do I need to fork yet another project to fix bugs that have had a solution sitting around in some other fork for a while?