Reputation: 492
I am trying to use Google Places API in a very simple app. I just want to locate all the shopping malls near the current location. I used this web service:
It was working, but now I am getting the following error message:
{
"error_message" : "You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API.",
"html_attributions" : [],
"results" : [],
"status" : "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT"
}
How can I avoid this? Also, while creating server key, I did not provide any IP address, as I don't have any server. I don't want to pay anything for this simple service. Is there anyway we can avoid it or any other free alternative?
Upvotes: 12
Views: 78675
Reputation: 459
You have to create a billing account to activate it. They have a daily limit for which you will not be charged - only pay if it exceeds the limit. Look at their pricing details on https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/usage-and-billing and plus there is a free trial for a month.
For a small project with very little number of requests you will end up not paying anything but you still have to associate a credit/debit card with the account for it to work.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 2143
as per following link https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/usage-and-billing
only one daily request quota for this API. otherwise billing compulsory.
Upvotes: 9
Reputation: 340
Almost every Google API has a daily free quota. For Google Places API it's 2500 requests per day and 10 requests per second. If you want to use more than that, I would suggest to enable billing. If you still want to use the free quota, please wait for a day to get those 2500 requests again.
P.S. : The quota is based on specific accounts. Please make your own API key using Google API console if you're using a random one.
Hope it helps.
Upvotes: 7
Reputation: 328
here is your answer link
@engin-kurutepe Have answered it very well .
He writes "Make sure that you're not hitting the Google API too fast. They don't limit the total number of requests but the rate of requests. About 10 requests per second is more or less the fastest you're allowed to hit their APIs."
Hope this Helps!
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 2698
You can try FourSquare
API, Its free, but it requires the users location to find places and thats good for near by places, its NOT good for searching for places far away.
Upvotes: -4