Problems
As part of my task to provide the ability to manage events via the Google Calendar API. Events use two groups of guests (attendees):
- Group 1 is Google accounts with alternative mail from the same domain (for example site.com)
- Group 2 is person with email all around the world.
This may be a conference call with the participation of 3-10 people, and the annual meeting of about 100 guests. On all events there can be representatives from both groups.
But I am faced with a restriction on the use of the API, which does not allow us to accomplish this task. I managed to find out the cause of this error and reduce the data to analyze the problem to a minimum.
Workflow and mechanism
Group 1: Each Google Calendar user is a separate personal Google account with setting “Alternative emails” from the same domain. They have an additional shared calendar for these events, with email notification enabled.
Group 2: This is person with email all around the world, that may have an Google Calendar Account or do not, which are used as the Guest ID for the event.
The organizer (group 1) has an authorized valid access token. He creates an event with a the list of guests. As the guest ID is used Calendar_ID account.
At first, the event was successfully saved correctly and the notification was received for external participants successfully, without errors. But after several repetitions of creating events similar in parameters, an error began to occur. I get the Calendar usage limits exceeded error:
{"error": {"errors": [{"domain": "usageLimits", "reason": "quotaExceeded", "message": "Calendar usage limits exceeded."}], "code": 403, "message ":" Calendar usage limits exceeded. "}}
Although if you save the event only for yourself in own calendar_id without any participants, the following error does not occur!
I have processed enough materials and similar problems from sites:
- https://developers.google.com/calendar/support
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-calendar-api
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/calendar
There are several pages indicating a similar problem, but there are no specific solutions or workarounds.
And I see only one real reason for the appearance of such a restriction:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/2905486?hl=en
"Sending too many invitations or emails to external guests". Perhaps I have reached this limit of 100-300. But what to do with it?
Additional investigation
For the tests I have created a completely new test environment:
1. A separate Google user has been created as an organizer, with his own calendar and additional calendar.
2. Created a separate Google user as a guest for the event, with your calendar and additional calendar
3. All creation of events was used via web calendar.google.com interface.
As result:
- An additional attendee's calendar has reached the limit after creating the 4th event, within 5 minutes
- The main calendar - after creating the 15th event, within 15 minutes
I got a restriction that I should try to create an event later. Perhaps there is some kind of limiter on the frequency of creating/updating an event, but nowhere is this mantioned.
With a break of 4 hours, I was able to create only 5 events for the main calendar, I could not add an additional event to the additional calendar due to an error.
Questions
1. How do I get around these calendar blocking restrictions? In addition, all guests receive this event as desired and are clearly ready to confirm receipt of such events (subscribe to events from certain organizers).
Is it possible to perform this task using G Suite solution or another similar?
Could you please provide me with some an extended documentation on the API of the Calendar about:
conditions for calendar limitation exceeded (I have not found these criterias for using the API of the Calendar on the official website and pages of official forums)
time to unlock to save/update the event, after the occurrence of "Calendar usage limits"
Thanks in advance for your rapid reply as soon as possible.
Based from this support page:,
Calendar usage limits exceeded. This is the result of an API call. (Don't mix this up with the message "Daily quota exceeded," which points to insufficient API quota.)
It also means that the user reached one of the Google Calendar limits in place to protect Google users and infrastructure from abusive behavior. (Reference.)
Suggested actions:
Read more on the Calendar usage limits in the G Suite Administrator help.
If one user is making a lot of requests on behalf of many users of a G Suite domain, consider using a Service Account with authority delegation (setting the quotaUser parameter).
Use exponential backoff.
Related
I have a google account with my company domain. I received super user status so that I can access all the calendars in the workspace. I registered my app and followed oAuth2.0 authorization steps with these scopes -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.resource.calendar
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar
Now I am able to read all the events and subscribe to the web_hook. My doubt is twofold -
For the same user, when I fetch the calendar list using CalendarList.list method (Calendar A), it is different from the list I get when I hit calendar list API from the admin directory side (Calendar B).
Is it because there are 2 sets of calendars being maintained for the user side and one from the admin side (that is domain wide)? If so, how can I modify or create an event in calendar B? (it is pretty simple from the UI side, I open my calendar and add that particular room to the meeting).
If there is a meeting (event) planned and I need to release the meeting room (i.e. the calendar itself because the rooms are coming as calendar resources themselves) from the meeting, which API should I hit?
Actually I need to simulate real life scenario where I have a meeting scheduled in a meeting room but then I want to keep the meeting but not the room, so that the room is no longer occupied and others might use it. It is during implementation of this flow that I had above 2 doubts.
Please help me out here as I am completely new to programming and it has been days since I started banging my head over it.
To answer your concerns, please see below:
Yes, that is correct. The calendars mentioned(user and admin) are completely different calendars. As for modification in calendar B, as long as you have the calendarId, you can use Events: insert .
The room should appear in the event resources and you can update it via Events: update.
Non-technical person here 🙋♂️
I'm having an issue where (using the Oauth 2.0 Playground) I authorize an internal user's GMB account and configure real-time notifications to be sent to our GCP topic. Every few days or so, notifications stop getting sent to our topic and when I check the notification settings for that account, they have been subscribed to an unknown GCP topic. I can reconfigure the notifications settings again, but every few days they are reconfigured to the unknown GCP topic.
It's possible some other app is overwritting my changes periodically, but I am having trouble figuring out where they're coming from.
Is there a log I can review to know where the request to change the notification settings is coming from?
When using the OAuth 2.0 Playground to configure settings, do they "expire" at some point? If so, is how do I prevent that from happening?
Thanks in advance for your help!
You can start looking into when and who created the unknown GCP topics by checking your Cloud Logging for created topics. You can do this by:
Open your Google Cloud Console
Open "Logging"
There should be a "Query" tab and select it.
Input protoPayload.methodName="google.pubsub.v1.Publisher.CreateTopic" and click "Run Query". You can check this reference if you'd like to see other logs related to Pub/Sub.
Click "LAST 1 HOUR" to adjust the time parameters of your log query. (Example: adjust it to a whole month to query all Created topics within a month)
Click the ">" beside the result and expand the log.
There are lots of info like the created topic name, what email authenticated this request, etc. In your case you should look out for field authenticationInfo for you to check who invoked the request:
authenticationInfo: {
principalEmail: "email-used-to-create-the-topic#example.com"
principalSubject: "user:email-used-to-create-the-topic#example.com"
}
NOTE: For testing purposes I blacked out my project-id and email for this example. Also the topic I created is log-this-topic and the email in the log mine since I was the one that created the topic.
OAuth have set rules for expiration, you can check it on Refresh Token expiration.
I have used Microsoft Flow to check for new emails with specific labels using their gmail connector trigger 'when a new email arrives'.
Up until now I have had four flows running perfectly for over a year, until last Friday when errors started occurring. I am now testing with just one flow, single concurrency, which runs every minute (Flow Plan 2). The mailbox being checked receives at most 200 new messages per day, fairly spread out.
This is the error message which happens after the flow runs sucessfully 2-3 times a minute apart:
{
"statusCode": 403,
"message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 23:01:41."
}
Microsoft claim this is related to the gmail API limit of no more than 60 calls per 60 seconds, even though the message above suggests a refresh of the quote in something close to 24 hours. It seems more like we are hitting some kind of daily limit, but the only one I could find on the gmail usage limits page is for 1,000,000 quota units per day, and I'm certain we are far short of that.
I have tried accessing quota usage from https://console.developers.google.com but since I didn't make a project and everything is setup from the Microsoft flow, there is no quota data shown.
Q: How can I verify the number of api calls being made from Microsoft Flow via the gmail connector, if that's even possible?
Note, I also started a thread on the Microsoft Power users forum to get help, but I figure if it's gmail API related then I may get better answers here.
Edit 27th Aug: Resolution was to export the flows to a new microsoft account. For whatever reason, the flows run fine on the new account (even though it has the same flow subscription). Microsoft still cannot explain why the flows would halt on one account and not on another.
Why are the counts I see in my database different than what I see in Google Analytics? The goal conversion number showing in Google Analytics is much lower than what I see in the database. This is the case for several months.
Few reasons here
Sampled data vs. unsampled data: You can read about here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1042498?hl=en - For API work i normally use a web query explorer to verify that my API call's are being sent and responses match to verify the data: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/
Adblockers: You might get hits/submissions from people where they are using an ad blocker, hence more entries in Database or Google Analytics.
Users vs. Sessions vs. Hits: You are looking at Unique Visitors/Sessions in Google Analytics instead of the total number of "Events", Not sure how your Goal is setup but best to use events and look at "Total Events" and "Unique Events" to get a sense.
Implementation: You may be firing JavaScript after the person has hit the button without waiting for the page change, can happen on some sites where you take them to a thank-you page or something. Best to check how this is setup and the order in which tag fires and page works.
This query is related to Google Apps. Is there a way we can get a trigger or a callback or force the user to visit a page from my app when user deletes my app from his domain?
I want to perform some operations when a user deletes the app from his domain.
Please help.
No. Mappings are completely independent of the app - they just 'point' at it. You can't get notifications when a user adds or deletes them.
The license notifications API allows you to retrieve a list of license-related events that have occurred for customers of your application. These events may be of four types:
provisions — A new license of the application has been provisioned.
expiries — A license of the application has expired.
deletions — An application has been deleted from a domain.
reassignments — An administrator has assigned or revoked a seat license for the application on the provided domain.
The license notification API allows several optional parameters:
timestamp — The time, measured in milliseconds since the UNIX epoch, to begin querying for notifications. The API will return results that occurred approximately after this time, but occasionally may return results that occurred prior to the timestamp. If you must have a list of notifications that only contains results after the timestamp, it is recommended that you apply a second filter in your code. The timestamp may not be used simultaneously with a start-token.
start-token — A continuation token, returned from a previous query, that may be used to continue retrieving notifications after the previous result set stopped. The start-token may not be used simultaneously with a timestamp.
max-results — The maximum number of notifications to return.
For a complete description of all response fields and possible values for those fields, see the reference.
For more : http://code.google.com/googleapps/marketplace/v2/developers_guide.html#license_notifications