Describe the problem/error/question
I’m building a custom node and I use this.helpers.requestWithAuthentication to make http requests. One of my actions (“create”) have 3 requests inside of it (create, update related records and get back the resulted entity). There is a chance of rate-limits being hit and in case I turn on “Retry on Fail” there is a chance of data duplication. I.e. if error happens during update/get then retry calls “create” again.
The API responds with “Retry-After” header, so naively I wanted to just add some retries to requests however I noticed that NodeApiError doesn’t expose Headers at all.
Is it expected? if yes then what is the preferred n8n way of dealing with rate-limit errors in the middle of action? Thanks in advance for any tips
What is the error message (if any)?
The service is receiving too many requests from you
Please share your workflow
Information on your n8n setup
- n8n version: 1.111.0
- Database (default: SQLite): SQLite
- n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
- Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): all
- Operating system: Tahoe 26.0.1