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by elondaits 802 days ago
Yes. I used Google sheets as a database to build a website and ran into this issue. The worse part is, if you come across the limit there’s not much you can do but wait or rate limit.

Another problem I had is an API change one year in.

I would not use Google Sheets again. Maybe I’d try Airtable, Notion, or some other similar platform where the API access is more of a priority to the company.

2 comments

For reading sheets, it's better to use the "share as CSV" option since that gets cached pretty well w/o limits
I've resisted this temptation to integrate with google apis for these 2 specific reasons rate limits and api changes.