Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded when copy some files

Question

I created a web app in python to copy files between my Google Drive accounts. Public shared files to my account.

I got the following error

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "usageLimits",
    "reason": "dailyLimitExceededUnreg",
    "message": "Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup.",
    "extendedHelp": "https://code.google.com/apis/console"
   }
  ],
  "code": 403,
  "message": "Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup."
 }
}

I tried everything, change scopes, enable SDK in Google Console, etc. The problem is that this error seems to appear only when I am copying some files, and the app works properly for other files, even files in the same account.

I am using pydrive to handle the authentication, following how I am doing it:

def LogIn(self):
    extDataDir = os.getcwd()
    ext_config = os.path.join(extDataDir, 'client_secrets.json')
    dir_path = extDataDir
    temp_folder = extDataDir

    gauth = GoogleAuth(os.path.join(extDataDir,'settings.yaml'))
    gauth.DEFAULT_SETTINGS['client_config_file'] = ext_config
    gauth.settings['save_credentials_file'] = os.path.join(temp_folder, "cred_copyfiles.txt")
    gauth.LoadCredentialsFile(os.path.join(temp_folder, "cred_copyfiles.txt"))
    if gauth.credentials is None:
        # Authenticate if they're not there
        gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
    elif gauth.access_token_expired:
        # Refresh them if expired
        try:
            gauth.Refresh()
        except:
            gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
    else:
        gauth.Authorize()
    return GoogleDrive(gauth)

This is my settings.yaml

client_config_backend: settings
client_config:
  client_id: my_clent_di
  client_secret: my_client_secret

save_credentials: True
save_credentials_backend: file
save_credentials_file: cred_copyfiles.txt

get_refresh_token: True

oauth_scope:
  - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

I copy the files using as example in Google's drive API documentation

drive.auth.service.files().copy(fileId=f['id'],body={"parents": [{"kind": "drive#fileLink","id": save_folder_id}]}).execute()

Again, It seems it is not a problem with authentication, since it works for some files and not for others. Even files in the same account. Does anyone know a solution for this problem?

EDIT: Following the suggestion, I build the authentication using the DriveAPI, by passing the pydrive, and I got the same error.

I found out how to get the request:

drive.auth.service.files().copy(fileId=f['id'],body={"parents": [{"kind": "drive#fileLink","id": save_folder_id}]}).to_json()

Here the request

{"resumable_uri": null, "resumable": null, "uri": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/file_id/copy?alt=json", "body_size": 79, "response_callbacks": [], "body": "{\"parents\": [{\"id\": \"file_id\", \"kind\": \"drive#fileLink\"}]}", "resumable_progress": 0, "_in_error_state": false, "method": "POST", "methodId": "drive.files.copy", "headers": {"user-agent": "google-api-python-client/1.6.1 (gzip)", "content-type": "application/json", "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate", "accept": "application/json"}}

pinoyyid pinoyyid · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-16T16:45:27

The most likely explanation for that error message is that you are making a Drive request without an Authorization http header. I suggest try to capture the http request/response that is failing and paste that into your question.

Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded when copy some files

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