Hi, I'm receiving an Airtable Error 429 in Make, even though it's fully OAuthorized and verified. It relates (I believe) to high API usage.
I stopped using the Airtable, which should have reset the API traffic; however, the issue is persisting even when I’m not using the Airtable.
The issue isn’t on Make’s side, I isolated the error by connecting another Airtable (which worked fine) and then tried connecting the Airtable that isn’t working to my account, and it didn’t work.
Below is Airtable’s explanation for error 429:
429 error: too_many_requests
Error meaning - The rate limit of 5 requests per base per second was exceeded. You will need to wait 30 seconds before subsequent requests succeed.
Troubleshooting steps - Add timeouts to the code to ensure that it stays under the rate limit.
If you’re sending too many requests too quickly, you can use Make’s “Sleep” tool to add delays in your API calls.
But you’ve said that you’ve already waited 30 seconds, and the error is still happening.
Perhaps that error also shows up if you’ve exceed the monthly limit on API calls, but I’m not sure.
Are you on the free plan? If so, you only get 1,000 API calls per month.
Hope this helps!
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Below is Airtable’s explanation for error 429:
429 error: too_many_requests
Error meaning - The rate limit of 5 requests per base per second was exceeded. You will need to wait 30 seconds before subsequent requests succeed.
Troubleshooting steps - Add timeouts to the code to ensure that it stays under the rate limit.
If you’re sending too many requests too quickly, you can use Make’s “Sleep” tool to add delays in your API calls.
But you’ve said that you’ve already waited 30 seconds, and the error is still happening.
Perhaps that error also shows up if you’ve exceed the monthly limit on API calls, but I’m not sure.
Are you on the free plan? If so, you only get 1,000 API calls per month.
- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant
Oh boy, there’s an API cap? I thought as long as we had the API calls available, it was unlimited? I’m not doing anything intense, just an Airtable call for the 10 most recent Instagram upload post captions from any given account. Maybe Airtable is somehow treating that as 10 separate API calls back to back?
1) Would a paid plan (and which one) remedy this limitation/error?
2) How many API calls would it count the Apify recent-post scrape of 10 uploads on IG? I thought the Apify was doing the heavy lifting and simply aggregating or parsing the text into Airtable, I didn’t think it was a unique API call.
Thanks!
No, there are not unlimited API calls unless you’re on the Business or Enterprise Plan. You can see the different API limits for the different pricing plans near the bottom of Airtable’s pricing page.
You can also see how many API calls you’ve used this month by going into your “Workspace Settings” page. That page will list all of your bases, and it will show you the API calls that you’ve used this month next to each base.
Every time you make an API request to Airtable, it counts as 1 API call. I can’t tell you how many calls Apify is making to Airtable for each request.
Hope this helps!
If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld
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