Whats the rate limit of google

Question

When I run the code after a while it gives me the code: 429 which means that too many requests have been given to that URL, so after a while, I tried again with the difference that I added up to 10 seconds of delay and still gave me the code. (429)

Here's the code:

import requests
import time

query = "programming"

while True:
    response = requests.get('https://www.google.com/search?q=' + query)
    print (response.status_code)
    time.sleep(10) # How much delay should I add?

output:

.
.
.
200
200
200
429
429
429
429
429
429
.
.
.

My question is that How much delay should I add to keep the code running all day (like 12 hours) with the response code 200?

Am I doing the ideal way? because I found something on the web about Quota and pricing for google and wanted to know does that relates to this situation.

Answer 1

You are using google end-user frontend (what humans see and use to search things on google). There is no documentation regarding its rate limits as I don't think they want you to use it programmatically.

In order to get search results programmatically I think you are suppoosed to use the Google Custom Search JSON API which provides 100 calls per day for free.