One of my users can't connect to his Google Analytics account from my
Cocoa app. He always gets the error "User Rate Limit Exceeded".

From what he tells me I think the authentication goes through, but
when my app tries to fetch the number of website profiles the error is
returned.

I have increased the Per-User Limit from 1 to 20 requests per second,
but that didn't help. Also, he is the only one with that error. All
other users have been fine even with requests limited to 1 per second.

Daily requests are far below daily quota.

Is there any other reason why the above error could be returned?

Thanks,
Rico

That error typically reflects a quota limit being exceeded, or a client
sending too many unbatcheded requests at once.

This is an appropriate question for the Analytics API developer forums, at
https://developers.google.com/analytics/community/

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the link. I posted a question to the management API group, but
no response yet.

In the meantime I refactored my code to use batched requests. However, a
few queries in the batch still fail with "*User Rate Limit Exceeded".*

I must be missing something, because the setup seems straight forward:

(1) Run normal (unbatched) query for the management account list

  *Sleep 5 seconds (for testing)*

(2) Run a second query, batched, for all web properties (in my case just
one sub-query)

  *Sleep another 5 seconds (for testing)*

(3) Run a third query, batched, for all website profiles (20 sub-queries in
my case)

-> A few sub-queries in the batch fail each time

I don't understand why the rate limit would be exceeded. The way I
understand the above is that I'm executing* a total of only 3 queries, each
with a 5 second break in-between*. Rate limit in the API console is 20
requests per second (I also tried 2000 per second).

Thanks,
Rico

A mis-configured client (in the Google API console) or requests without the
ID required by the API (the API key, or the OAuth 2 client ID) can also
cause quota failures.

Be sure to check the requests in the http logs generated by the library to
verify that an appropriate request header is included.

I'm using OAuth 2 authentication. The logs show that the request includes
the Authorization header:

*2012-05-10 10:53:47 +0000      batch: analytics.management.profiles.list
(20 queries) *
*request:* POST https://www.googleapis.com/rpc?prettyPrint=false
   headers: 5    *authorized*
   data: 3236 bytes, application/json-rpc; charset=utf-8
*response:*  status 200
   headers: 11
   data: 258032 bytes, application/json

Details:

batch: analytics.management.profiles.list (20 queries)

2012-05-10 10:53:47 +0000
Request: POST https://www.googleapis.com/rpc?prettyPrint=false
Request headers:
  Accept: application/json-rpc
  Authorization: Bearer _snip_
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Content-Type: application/json-rpc; charset=utf-8
  User-Agent: com.example.app/1.0.1 google-api-objc-client/2.0 MacOSX/10.7.3 (gzip)

Does this look good to you or is there something missing?

-Rico

That looks normal for an OAuth 2 authorized request. Perhaps the Client ID
no longer has any associated quota allowed for the service.

Hi,
I have the same problem, and I realize from the documentation
(https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/c...)
there is a request per second limit.
The default request per second limit is 1.
You can change it up to 10 in this url (you have to put your <PROJECT_ID>:
https://code.google.com/apis/console/b/0/#project:<PROJECT_ID>:quotas