rate limit for the api

This is not an issue related to this module,

Has anyone experienced rate limit problems ? I have a spreadsheet with around 200 worksheets, I want to bring them all so I iterate the worksheets and do getRows().

I quickly run into

HTTP error 429: Too Many Requests

I can limit the amount of parallel calls, but I am wondering if there’s any way to lift this limit.

Thanks for the great lib 👍

[dsifford]

For anybody still interested in a solution for this, I had success using the async package + setTimeout.

The data that I was interesed in appending to my spreadsheet was in JSON format. I needed to proceed through the array and save content from each object within the array.

Here’s an example:

var myJSONData = [
  {
    "name": "Tom", 
    "age": 45
  },
  {
    "name": "Bill",
    "age": 59
  }
  // .... etc
]

async.eachSeries(myJSONData, function(item, callback) {
  sheet_info.worksheets[index].addRow({
      Name: item.name,
      Age: item.age
    }, function(err) {
         if (err) {
           console.log('Too many requests');
         } else {
            setTimeout(function() {
            callback();
            }, 50);
         }
     }
});

Obviously, the example is much more rudimentary than the real thing. Hopefully, you get the idea.

I made ~500 or so requests using this method without any issues.

[guido4000]

@dsifford your solution worked like a charm. I just had to set the timeout to 100 ms.