Google URL Shortener 403 Rate Limit Exceeded
google-api, google-url-shortener
Solution
The API limits requests to 1 request / per second / per user.
A user is defined as a unique IP address.
So if you were doing your load testing from a single IP this would have cause your rate limit issue.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/mcf/v3/limits-quotas#general_api
Problem
Using the google url shortener api, it was working fine till I started testing at load. Quickly started getting back 403 Rate Limit Exceeded errors from Google, even though I signed up to use the API and it comes with 1,000,000 hits a day. I can see the requests coming in on the google reporting tool, and they are just sending back 403's for everything. 403's started coming back at around 345/350 hits to the API, have been continuing for hours. Thoughts?