يونيو 18, 2021
Important changes to how the Google Calendar API manages and limits queries
What’s changing
Who’s impacted
Why it’s important
Additional details
- Using push notifications instead of polling.
- Randomized timing to ensure user requests are spread out evenly, rather than bursts of requests.
- Using incremental synchronization with sync tokens for all collections instead of repeatedly retrieving all the entries.
- Increasing page size to retrieve more data at once by using the max results parameter.
- Updating events when they change to avoid recreating all the events on every sync.
- Using exponential backoff for error retries to make rate-limiting work properly.
Getting started
- Admins and Developers: Use this guide to learn more about how to view your API usage and limits.
- End users: There is no end user impact for this feature.
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers