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Graettinger: Google Sheets rate limits updates faster than once per second

Johnny Graettinger · Building Real-Time Data Pipelines | Estuary's Johnny Graettinger · Aug 11, 2022 · at 8:19

Johnny Graettinger, co-founder and CTO of Estuary, explains Google Sheets API rate limits while demonstrating real-time data stream materialization.

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“That's actually a limitation of Google Sheets. If you try and make updates to Google Sheets any faster than that, Google starts to rate limit you.”

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The claim, plainly

Google Sheets rate limits updates that are pushed faster than once per second.

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Assessment

Google Sheets API documentation and third-party developer testing confirm that write requests (such as update, clear, and copyTo) are rate-limited to 60 requests per minute per user per project. This quota averages out to 1 write request per second. Pushing raw updates faster than once per second exceeds this quota and triggers HTTP 429 'Too Many Requests' rate-limiting errors.

Google Sheets API official usage documentation specifies write requests are limited to 60 per minute per user per project (averaging 1 request per second).
Exceeding 60 write requests per minute results in an HTTP status code 429 (RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED / Too Many Requests).
Developer documentation and integration guides confirm that individual cell/row updates sent faster than 1 per second without batching hit this rate limit.

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[1] google.com [2] stackoverflow.com [3] google.com [4] uipath.com [5] omni.co [6] sfailabs.com [7] lowcode.agency [8] stackscout.net

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