Google Ads API: How to catch the 504 Deadline Exceeded error (Python)

[Mat]

Hi,

I keep getting the occational 504 Deadline Exceeded error while using the Google Ads API, where I never got this error before while using the AdWords API (for the same tasks).

There seems to be no pattern and usually I can't reproduce the error. It occures randomly in about one of several hundred queries, but some of them are crucial. So I want to catch this error, wait a minute and send the request again. But I'm struggling with how to catch this error.

I've tried somthing like this, but it won't catch this type of error but raises the error immediately without retry:

  for i in range(4):                    

    try:

      results = ga_service.search(customer_id, query=query, page_size=PAGE_SIZE)

      break

    except Exception as error:

      print("Error on try %s: %s" % (i,  error))

      if i == 3:

        raise

      else:

        time.sleep(60)

        continue  

    except:

      print("Error on try %s" % (i))

      if i == 3:

        raise

      else:

        time.sleep(60)

        continue          

What's wrong?

Regards

Mat

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Mat,

Could you please send over through reply privately to author some of the API calls you are making that are resulting in this error?

Thanks,

Anthony

Google Ads API Team

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[Mat]

Apparently we should never have to bother with this bug, because it should already be caught in the Python library. But there seems to be an issue:

https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-python/issues/87