Pytrends: The request failed: Google returned a response with code 429

python google-trends
WWH98932 picture WWH98932 · May 28, 2018 · Viewed 14k times · Source

I'm using Pytrends to extract Google trends data, like:

from pytrends.request import TrendReq
pytrend = TrendReq()
pytrend.build_payload(kw_list=['bitcoin'], cat=0, timeframe=from_date+' '+today_date)

And it returns an error: 

ResponseError: The request failed: Google returned a response with code 429.

I made it yesterday and for some reason it doesn't work now! The source code from github failed too:

pytrends = TrendReq(hl='en-US', tz=360, proxies = {'https': 'https://34.203.233.13:80'})

How can I fix this? Thanks a lot!

Answer

lopezdp picture lopezdp · May 31, 2018

This one took a while but it turned out the library just needed an update. You can check out a few of the approaches I posted here, both of which resulted in Status 429 Responses:

https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends/issues/243

Ultimately, I was able to get it working again by running the following command from my bash prompt:

Run:

pip install --upgrade --user git+https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends

For the latest version.

Hope that works for you too.

EDIT:

If you can't upgrade from source you may have some luck with:

pip install pytrends --upgrade

Also, make sure you're running git as an administrator if on Windows.

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