[RESOLVED] All of a sudden googleapi Error 429

sadisticpandabear · May 15, 2019, 1:28pm

Yeah, here still a ton of 429. Hetzer to some Google data center, dunno where. 429 > 200

jad3675 · May 15, 2019, 1:52pm

I'm having zero errors since I change the --user-agent string.

sadisticpandabear · May 15, 2019, 1:55pm

Never Mind, changing the user agent string worked.....forgot the '-' between user and agent. Working great now!

darkavenger · May 15, 2019, 1:57pm

I was thinking is it possible to set this topic with requirement for an account and not to be visible for guests as the link it being tossed around with the solution for the agent, want to avoid getting this to stop working as well.

darthShadow · May 15, 2019, 2:06pm

There is no feasible way to block user agents as long as everyone doesn't use the same one and they don't start blocking the whole drive api for everyone.

osatien · May 15, 2019, 2:06pm

in my case the user agent change has helped at first, but not now. getting 420 and 403

tokyodrift · May 15, 2019, 2:09pm

Looks much better now...

scream_be · May 15, 2019, 2:17pm

Hi

I run into exactly this issue as well. Also not hit the limits if I check it in the developers GUI.

How can I set user-agent string? Which version is required?
I run v1.47-DEV but it is not avaiable there.

redlead3 · May 15, 2019, 2:29pm

Germany Hetzner. It's been up and down for a week.

fayraz · May 15, 2019, 3:21pm

Mounted with user string and now working OK on Germany Hetzner.

Dual-O · May 15, 2019, 3:26pm

I get Error 429 too the last two days...

ashlar · May 15, 2019, 3:57pm

Is this without changing user agent?

Wicked · May 15, 2019, 4:52pm

Rereading this thread a few things I noticed I had in common with other users:

I'm from USA(Near Boston)
I previously used plexdrive and never had issues
When I switched to rclone mount's instead of plexdrive is when the issues started

Morphy · May 15, 2019, 5:23pm

Do we need the agent flag to an upload script as well, or only for the mount ?

misteriks · May 15, 2019, 6:13pm

I can confirm setting the user agent solves the issue for me as well.

Plex server at home in Europe.

I initially tried to set the user agent in the rclone.conf file
user-agent = "random user agent"

but that didn't seem to work.

I now have it on the command line of the rclone windows service is created with nssm
Any reason why it wouldn't work on the config file?

Painbringer112 · May 15, 2019, 6:27pm

I've tried the user-agent argument to no avail. Still seeing continual 429's

misteriks · May 15, 2019, 6:35pm

I just added the user-agent to my command line and my plex server is now re-indexing everything as well

Animosity022 · May 15, 2019, 6:36pm

The user-agent does not cause anything to re-index.

misteriks · May 15, 2019, 6:36pm

Here is an example of my arguments: mount Gdrive: P: --config D:\RcloneConfig\rclone.conf --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36"

misteriks · May 15, 2019, 6:38pm

I would think the same, but it is doing it and there was other reports of that happening in this thread as well so that's why I was mentioning it.