Targeting Idea Service "You've exceeded a limit"

[Curtis Beck]

How do I determine what limit I've exceeded?

We are performing a large number of queries to the targeting idea service and have started receiving a new error that I cannot determine what the limit is.

The logs from a single process contains this error:

WARNING:googleads.soap:2019-05-10 11:55:45,976 Error summary: {'responseTime': '59', 'requestId': '000588873f33b0f20abfba8a180bbb76', 'serviceName': 'TargetingIdeaService', 'operations': '1', 'faultMessage': '[RateExceededError <rateName=RATE_LIMIT, rateKey=null, rateScope=ACCOUNT, retryAfterSeconds=30>]', 'methodName': 'get'}

followed by this very generic one a 15 seconds later.

WARNING:googleads.soap:2019-05-10 11:56:02,244 Error summary: {'serviceName': 'TargetingIdeaService', 'faultMessage': "You've exceeded a limit for this service.", 'methodName': 'get'}

The RateExceededError makes sense to me and is expected. For the throughput we are trying to obtain, I handle this by switching accounts.

I'm familiar with and designed for the service limiting as discussed in:

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/limits#targeting-idea

I'm also familiar with and designed for the rate limiting as discussed in:

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/rate-limits

Thanks

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Curtis,

The rate limits for the TargetingIdeaService are significantly more strict than for other services that can be used for managing campaigns. The rate limits can vary based on time of day, overall volume of API usage by all users, and other factors. Our team does not publish specific allowable QPS numbers to allow for this variance, and instead use rate limit errors and require that integrations against the API adhere to the timeouts as they encounter rate limit errors.

Let me know if you have further clarifications.

Regards,

Dannison

Google Ads API Team

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[Curtis Beck]

Thanks for the response Dannison.

Are you saying that:

• even though I interleave accounts to try and avoid being rate limited 
• and if an account is rate limited it is pulled from the interleaving for at least the specified retryAfterSeconds duration given in the error

just the sheer number of times I encounter being rate limited across all accounts is a limiting factor too?

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Curtis,

Unfortunately, this is a known limitation in the server with regards to TargetingIdeaService. The server counts all of the accounts making this API service call. I would suggest to just retry the service call if ever you encounter the error again.

Regards,

Dannison

Google Ads API Team

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