Add support for user-provided Google Books API key to fix "429 Client Error: Too Many Requests" #3281
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Using the Google Books API without a key is limited to a hard cap of global daily requests. Once the quota is reached, all requests without a key return a 429 error. This can be worked around by using a free personal API key generated in the Google Cloud console. The key allows for 1000 requests a day, and users can request a limit increase for free from Google if that is not enough. API key can be added in Admin Panel -> Basic Settings -> Feature Configuration.
Functionality for users that do not wish to use a personal API key remains unchanged.
I don't see an open issue, but here is a discord user running into it. Here is the json response from that request when the quota is reached: