I recently started an internship concerning Master Data Management in Talend. Part of the Master Data Management proces involves the cleansing of data. In my case I have to cleanse a few addresses. After doing some research I bumped into the Google Places API, which would do the trick for me. At first I wasn't aware of the so called quota limits that are bound to this API so I decided to read up on it some more. Basicly I have quite a few addresses to cleanse, so the 1000 requests per day limit won't cut it. As of yesterday I decided to increase that limit to 150 000 requests by verifying my identity using my creditcard. The requests were indeed increased to 150 000 but after a few hours my billing account was closed without warning and the limit went back to 1000 requests.
My question is: is the increase of the quota limit only available for businesses or are individual users eligible for it too?
I basicly filled in my own name as the name of the business when I created the billing account for my own project. That billing account is closed now. I really need that quota increase to be able to finish my project so I'm wondering if you guys are able to enlighten me. The image below is part of the form which has to be filled in to create a billing account.
for this amount of quota you have to identify yourself through your credit card and thats it. you can use this key for personal use or business does not matter . as the whole app has that much of search quota. no matter how many people install that app.
so the answer is it is eligible for individual users too.
thank you
You may have different terms in your country. We don't have VAT in the US, although we do have state-specific sales tax on some goods and services. I suspect that Google cannot offer this service in your country without a business tracking the VAT for it. I use the Google Search API with Custom Search Engines on both personal and business accounts from the US with just CC validation. You might look to see if there are Google services resellers local to you who can offer you the Place API.
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I need to create a scheduler for my own SaaS, and I'm trying to understand whether Google Calendar API is a fit for that. Basically I could have hundreds of thousands of calendars. Each calendar may be a user of my service, but not a Google user. It seems that perhaps I could use resource calendars under my Google Cloud service account. My biggest concern is whether my usage will fall within the Calendar API's service quotas, either automatically or by requesting a quota increase?
Yes service accounts will fall within quota usage limits. There is also a limit about creating more then 25 calendars in a day causing the user to end up in read mode for the rest of the day.
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Google Calendar API Usage Limits
The Google Calendar API has a courtesy limit of 1,000,000 queries per day.
To view or change usage limits for your project, or to request an increase to your quota, do the following:
If you don't already have a billing account for your project, then create one.
Visit the Enabled APIs page of the API library in the API Console, and select an API from the list.
To view and change quota-related settings, select Quotas. To view usage statistics, select Usage.
On the one hand, you could work around the quota issues by sharding your users across multiple Service Accounts. You would probably also want to shard them across multiple App IDs.
On the other hand, don't do it. In my experience, using Google APIs outside their intended use case doesn't end well.
Luis is no longer free ?
I didn't open LUIS dashboard for 10-11 days. I'm seeing this now. They changed a lot of things there.
I must get azure key to get my LUIS app works ?
According to the pricing details, LUIS is not free. You are able to make 10K calls per month without charge, after which you are charged $0.75 per 1000 calls. Without more detail I am unsure of your second question. An azure key may be used to link LUIS to your bot.
Just to clarify LUIS has the same model as before, the new portal just highlights this information in a different way that's a little more confusing (we're working on it).
No Azure Account; free for 1000 requests/month using programmatic api key
With Azure, free for 10,000 requests per month (F0 plan in Azure)
With Azure, $.75/1000 calls
The thing that's new and confusing is the programmatic key with the low quota isn't connected to your app by default. We're going to fix that shortly.
Same happened to me. I had to create LUIS app in Azure and then provide key to LUIS application on LUIS.ai. But in LUIS app on azure, you can select the pricing tier as free if 10k calls per month suffice your application usage or choose paid plan according to need.
A start-key is default available with each LUIS model which can be used upto 10k calls per month
LUIS is free for Testing and Educational use. It is about 10000 conversations per month. However in production environment it has to be paid.
The important this is you can access LUIS feature via Azure or can independently integrate it into your application. The method of costing will depend on that as well.
I am currently using Kinvey only for the business logic. Everything else I am using other services. It seemed that I must be logged in to use business logic so I made one account and made the user register to that account when opening the app. I am confused if that will be an okay approach since I believe I saw on another post that after so many downloads, it will raise a flag on Kinvey's side. Is that true? I also just saw these images in the users section and am not sure what this means.
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To answer your question about pricing, you can review our pricing plans at https://www.kinvey.com/pricing/.
Kinvey monitors customers in the free developer plan to check if their usage exceeds the limits. We do this by checking API calls per month, number of active users, data/file storage used etc for your kid - not by App Store downloads.
If that happens, Kinvey support or sales will reach out to you to help you transition to the next pricing tier or help you to reduce your consumption with optimization or other options.
Your queries about master secret, authentication are best answered in this Kinvey security guide: http://devcenter.kinvey.com/rest/guides/security
Regards,
Wani
Kinvey Support
Billing was added to our gmaps-api project. And the billing definitely propagated, as it was added around 4 weeks ago.
In the project dashboard, billing shows as available. However, when we try to adjust our quotas, it says that we need to activate billing.
We contacted just about every channel at Google and were told that there is absolutely no provided support for billing issues with developer APIs.
Us: "We want to give you money."
Google: "No, and we won't help you."
Has anyone else encountered billing issues with API projects, and if so, how did you resolve them?
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Note: Finally a rep reached out. You can ONLY get around the quota by getting a Google Maps for Work license.
The billing option is just a false lead if you're looking to go above the quota.
So it seems there are 2 limits.
You can only geocode 2500 addresses per day without billing.
You can geocode up to 100000 per day if you provide billing but you are limited to 2500 per session.
I seem to have this issue as well. I have a billing operation setup but I need to set up multiple sessions in order to go above the 2500 limit.
If you want to go above 2500 per session then you need the "Google Maps for Work" license. Is that correct?
I am using the Plaid API for iOS to write a program which accesses banks accounts after authentication and displays the transaction data.
I need to know if it's possible to transfer funds between accounts (checking to savings) and how.
I know acorns uses the same API, and they are able to transfer funds, and Plaid's site claims "Authorize ACH payments in seconds based on the information users know in their heads. No need to know account or routing number. No need for micro-deposits."
But is there documentation on how to move money on the site?
Plaid does not move money via their API.
UPDATES
Dwolla now provides a white-label solution that basically does this all for you. Combine Plaid and Dwolla, and you're basically golden for payments in the US now.
Disclaimer: I co-founded a company that is a customer of Dwolla and one of their first white label customers.
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Moving money with the credentials that Plaid provides requires using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) process in the US.
What won't work
Ripple Labs (currently under federal investigation), Dwolla, BitPay, etc. all require proprietary authentication with their own platforms before they will move money. You can't use them with the routing and account number that you get from Plaid. You have to adopt their entire system...or nothing.
What will work
Plaid's API provides more for you than those other APIs because you have the routing and account number. This allows you to directly enter into the ACH system yourself. All you need to move money is the senders routing and account number, the receiver's routing and account number, and the amount. Plaid gives you 2/5 of this already.
But you need to move the funds. Using an ACH processor (like Vericheck - I was a customer), you can use their API to send money to an account. Or a bank (like Silicon Valley Bank - also was a customer), where you can generate and upload a NACHA file with the instructions.
What you're in for
Compliance and banking laws are strict. Get a good lawyer to help explain what you're up against. ACH processors will want to do comprehensive background checks on you and your business. Banks will require you to deposit a portion of your proposed transactions to cover STOP payments (when a user tells their bank to cancel a payment, like voiding a check). You may have to register as a money transmitter (a small $1M in filing, registration, and legal fees for all 50 states).
Moving money is still difficult to do on behalf of a user, but if you're willing to put in the legal work, the programming is pretty simple!
Plaid's API actually will give you routing and account number information and/or transaction data with cool info like GPS coordinates of transactions but I believe when I spoke to them they explicitly said that they don't provide money moving services in their API.
I've been looking at Ripple Labs, Dwolla, BitPay, etcetera.
If you have any recommendations about getting Plaid and Meteor working well together, then I can add you to a Cloud9 workspace and would be delighted to learn. :)
Plaid recently signed an agreement with Stripe. Stripe allows you to move funds via ACH through their newly realeased API: https://stripe.com/blog/accept-ach-payments
This is very similar to what companies like Peloton Technologies Inc. have been doing in Canada for EFT since 2010. EFT is what most parts of the world refer to as ACH.
Plaid provides Stripe with a higher possibility of being able to instantly verify a bank account, otherwise they fall back to the old Paypal 4 day verification processes of issuing a couple of transfers and waiting for the users to verify the amounts.
The pain of waiting on the user and the fact that 7 out of 10 times a bank account is entered wrong is what has probably prevented Stripe and other companies entering this space until now.