Exponential Backoff for Google APIs
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Implement exponential backoff to handle Google API rate limits gracefully.
About This Workflow
This workflow demonstrates a robust strategy for handling rate limiting imposed by Google APIs. It utilizes a combination of n8n nodes to implement an exponential backoff mechanism, allowing your workflows to automatically retry API calls with increasing delays when encountering rate limit errors. This prevents workflow failures and ensures smoother integration with Google services.
Key Features
- Automated Retry Logic: Automatically retries failed API calls.
- Exponential Delay: Increases the waiting time between retries exponentially (1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s...).
- Configurable Max Retries: Set a maximum number of retries to prevent infinite loops.
- Graceful Failure Handling: Stops the workflow and alerts after exceeding the maximum retry attempts.
- Integration Ready: Designed to be easily integrated with any Google API node.
How To Use
- Trigger: Start the workflow manually or with your preferred trigger.
- Loop Over Items (Optional): If processing multiple items, use this node to prepare data.
- Google Sheets (or any Google API Node): Configure your Google API node. Ensure the
onErrorsetting is set tocontinueErrorOutputto allow the workflow to proceed to the backoff logic. - Exponential Backoff: This node calculates the next retry delay based on the
retryCount. It expectsretryCountas an input (defaults to 0 if not provided). - Wait: Pauses the workflow for the duration calculated by the
Exponential Backoffnode. - Check Max Retries: Evaluates if the
retryCounthas exceeded a predefined threshold (e.g., 10 in this example). - Stop and Error: If max retries are exceeded, this node will stop the workflow with an error message.
- Connection Flow: The
Google Sheetsnode's error output should be connected to theLoop Over Itemsnode (if used) or directly to theExponential Backoffnode. TheExponential Backoffnode's output should connect to theWaitnode, and theWaitnode's output should connect to theCheck Max Retriesnode. TheCheck Max Retriesnode then branches to eitherStop and Erroror back to theGoogle Sheetsnode (viaLoop Over Itemsif applicable) for another attempt.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "ee3defa3-5468-42dc-a422-7e8f32f58ab1",
"name": "Exponential Backoff for Google APIs",
"nodes": 24,
"category": "Utility",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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