HttpError 500 when running the quickstart,py from Google Drive API samples

Question

I have started exploring Google Drive API and was trying the sample python code given in API reference page. It was running alright the first time I ran it. Lately it has been giving the following error

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?pageSize=10&fields=nextPageToken%2C+files%28id%2C+name%29&alt=json returned "Internal Error">

Below is the link to the code I used https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/quickstart/python

Did you change anything? Can you try creating a new clientID with a new client_secret.json (basically start all over again) and run it in a virtual environment if it changes anything? Mine is working pretty fine right now. — noogui
I did not change anything. I just tried after a few minutes and it is working again. Weird! Is there a limit to number of requests I can make? — Anand Venu

noogui noogui · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-08T10:37:21

I think you were affected by the brief service disruption in Google servers. But this is fixed now so try again. Error 500 means it's the server's fault.

HttpError 500 when running the quickstart,py from Google Drive API samples

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