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Chris Decker
Chris Decker

Reputation: 478

Geocoding API Response Stops After 2,500 Requests

I use the geocoding API to process lists of addresses using the 'geocoder' module in Python. As recently as a few weeks ago I was able to do this successfully, but today the API stopped responding after 2,500 calls. I did not get any error responses, and if I restarted the process I was able to get an additional 2,500 responses, but then nothing after that again. Does anyone know why this might be happening? The only reference to a cap at 2,500 was the daily free call limit on the previous pricing model.

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edit: Interestingly, the issue seems to be isolated to my usage of the geocoder module. When I roll my own, I'm not having the same problem.

Function using geocoder:

def get_data(query):
    result = geocoder.google(query, key=apikey)
    return {'formatted_address':result.address, 
        'lat':result.lat, 
        'long':result.lng}

Function using just requests:

def get_data(query):
    try:
        api_response = requests.get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='+query+'&key='+apikey)
        read_response = api_response.json()
        address = read_response['results'][0]['formatted_address']
        lat = read_response['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']
        lng = read_response['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']
        return {'formatted_address':address, 'lat':lat, 'lng':lng}
    except:
        return None

Worth noting that I'm on a new computer since the last successful run and I was running into some intermittent corporate firewall weirdness since I switched. It just seemed like such strange behavior for the issue to be on my side, I thought for sure I was running into an API limitation. I guess I will just log the issue on geocoder's git and move on.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 870

Answers (2)

mhollberg
mhollberg

Reputation: 66

You need to pass the parameter

rate_limit = False

in your your query. Thus your query above should be

result = geocoder.google(query, key=apikey, rate_limit=False)

Note: This works because the 'google.py' module by default calls the decorator

@ratelim.greedy(2500, 60 * 60 * 24) # Line 271 in google.py

So an alternative option would be to change that value in the source code.

Upvotes: 2

Sabbir Rupom
Sabbir Rupom

Reputation: 43

Google standard API usage limit is 2,500 free requests per day, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries.

If you want to increase your daily limit, you have to upgrade your API usage package from Billing console.

See this link for more information.

Upvotes: 1

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