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costastf / locationsharinglib

A library to retrieve coordinates from an google account that has been shared locations of other accounts.
MIT License
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Is there a rate limit? #72

Closed jpajenski closed 5 years ago

jpajenski commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to work around some issues with Home Assistant, so I set up your sample code (from the usage instructions to get the maps location) in a cron job to spit out my location data every 2 minutes. This ran fine several times, but now I have no output and no errors. Is there a rate limit on the google side?

costastf commented 5 years ago

Hi @jpajenski , no there is no rate limit, but google has a lot of fraudulent traffic identification methods and if they think you are doing something wrong they will temporarily blacklist you and the process will be presented with a captcha which of course is not visible so it will just stop refreshing the info until the temporary blacklist is lifted. What could be identified as fraudulent traffic for example could be you using the same account for which you use a cookie from another device in your network.

jpajenski commented 5 years ago

Thanks, you're right I never turned off home assistant and it started working when mine broke.