Google Calendar Usage Limits Exceeded Error

[brandon_douh]

So I've been developing an Airtable base for months to track & log operations. Since there are so many moving parts, creating google calendar invites are a must for the employees who will be a part of the operations. 

I've been reaching an error with the Google Calendar automation to create events, which I will show in a screenshot. I cannot seem to find what the limits are to find a workaround, some days I can only generate less than 10, other days I can generate around 50. It is never consistent, and I've been trying to find resources to figure this out - but I have not yet. 

If anybody has any workarounds, or knows the usage limits, that would save me so much trouble. I don't want to use any third party automation software, I would like to keep everything in Airtable Automations. 

 

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Hmm, are there a lot of invitees for these events?  Are the invitees within your org / domain?  I vaguely recall someone having this issue when inviting a lot of email addresses that aren't from the same domain

[brandon_douh]

No, in almost every case, there is only one invitee that would not be under the company's domain.

[brandon_douh]

Upon doing some extensive research I came across this page: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2905486?hl=en

GCal claims I'm hitting the usage limits, but I have not hit any of the limits listed on this page.

[brandon_douh · Accepted solution]

Upon even further research...
Each instance of Google Calendar Create Event generates multiple calls on GCal's end. What I thought was only 187 calls, was in reality 730 calls. You need 24 hours to let the refresh rate end before creating more calls. 

As per google support, there are no clear guidelines to specific rate limits. Hope this helps anybody else encountering this issue - although there's no clear solution, waiting out the unknown usage limits seems to be the only thing you can do, besides creating multiple google accounts to use for calendars.