Too many requests when using Google Sheets connector

[Anonymous]

I use the Google sheets connector in Power Query to get information from several Google Sheets into several datasets.

It worked great but somehow since a couple of months I am reaching the limit for some reason and get a 429 Too Many Requests error almost everytime the dataflow refreshes.

To lower the times the Google sheets API calls I created dataflows per google sheet and scheduled those all dataflows on different times, so they don't run at the same time, but still the refreshes fail more often than succeed. It seems that even getting data from one google sheet makes a lot of calls to the API.

I tried some suggestions I found:

• Using Table.buffer -> no succes
• Exponential backoff in Power Query ->Was not able to get that to work properly (https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/limits#quota)
  
• Increasing the quota limits -> If I login to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard with the user I also use in the google sheet connector I don't see any usage and I think it is not possible to increase it.

I saw a similar issue in the Power Automate forum (https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Connectors/API-requests-limit-when-using-Google-Sheets-con...), I guess in Power Automate it is easier to use Exponential backoff, but still it seems like a problem.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[v-xiaoyan-msft]

Hi  @Anonymous ,

 429 Too Many Requests error. This error is typically due to hitting the Google Sheets API’s quota limits. 

Based on the above information, if you are a Power BI Pro licensee, you can create a support ticket for free and a dedicated Microsoft engineer will come to solve the problem for you.
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[ryan0585]

Sounds like Microsoft needs to limit how many calls they're sending to the Google API via Power BI. First the query evaluates, then it runs, yada yada yada.

I'd love an option to skip the evaluation step for things like this... too many queries for a simple refresh, and I feel like that's what's happening here.

I don't want to get on the phone with a Microsoft rep just to have someone tell me what I already know. I just want better Google Sheets integration.

[NickRoss]

Google Sheets API Quotas:

• Requests per 100 seconds per user: 100
• Queries per 100 seconds per user: 60
• Writes per 100 seconds per user: 60

Change my mind:

Microsoft does not care about playing nice with google products.

If you want to lower the Google Sheets API’s requests you'll need to write and run your own script and save that data into a database.