Error 429 with Google Drive "your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."

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My Make script has been working great for over a year. I send 2-3 files to Make each week; it splits them into a MD file and a PDF file and saves them to my Google drive.

Today, I got an message that my script wasn’t working. It seems like Make is generating a 429 error, but in the log, it looks like Google is causing the problem. says:

<h1>We're sorry...</h1><p>... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.</p></div><div style="margin-left: 4em;">See <a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640">Google Help</a> for more information.

Suggestions about how to resolve this problem would be greatly apprecaited!

Thanks,
Adam

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Thanks! I tried to search and nothing came up – but clearly I wasn’t searching in the right place!

I appreciate your help.

ALP