Timeout around 5 minutes?

API Troubleshooting
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I am using the API through Google Drive, and it’s working, but it’s giving me errors at about 5 minutes of processing time. I’m getting these:

Error Exceeded maximum execution time

and

Function execution has timed out. Restart the debugger to continue debugging.

In the five minutes, it processes anywhere from 20-65 images (resize, center, white background, soft shadow, snap to edge, 5% padding, no border.)

I was under the impression I could do considerably more images at one times. I’m not worried about speed - I realize it’s doing several AI enhancements to each image, but the “saving time and money” concept is not present if I have to sit at my desk watching for the error message, and not able to set it to process while I attend to other duties, go to lunch, or whatever.

My goal is to process 5,000 images in a day, but not have to babysit them.

Ideas?

2

Hi there,

Thanks for flagging this.

For context, Google Apps Script has a 6-minute maximum execution time limit per function call. Are you using the Google Sheets template from our guide, or a custom script?

Thanks in advance for the added context

3

I am using the script created in the sandbox, pulling them images from a folder in Google drive and dumping the processed photos in to a second folder in Google drive.

Is there a better way to edit a larger quantity of photos while walking away for longer than six minutes and letting it just work in the background?