Getting ERROR: API Error: 429 - Too Many Requests when attempting to publich to Quarto Pub

[mdlama]

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Bug description

Hello. I'm getting the ERROR: API Error: 429 - Too Many Requests error when attempting to render a quarto document. My specific command is quarto publish Chapter_2.qmd. It looks like this is similar to Issue #6014.

Thank you!

Steps to reproduce

quarto publish Chapter_2.qmd

I've used multiple .qmd files and receive the same error.

Actual behavior

ERROR: API Error: 429 - Too Many Requests

Stack trace:
    at QuartoPubClient.createSite (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:156132:13)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:178:7)
    at async file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:155184:20
    at async withSpinner (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:122748:12)
    at async handlePublish (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:155181:5)
    at async publishDocument (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:159908:38)
    at async publish7 (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:160099:9)
    at async doPublish (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:160040:7)
    at async publishAction (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:160083:7)
    at async _Command.actionHandler (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:160018:9)

Expected behavior

I expected it to publish to Quarto Pub. Also I am aware that Quarto Pub was down at some point today, so maybe that is related to the current issue.

Your environment

• IDE: RStudio 2025.09.0+387
• OS: MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3

Note: This error was reproduced on Posit Cloud as well.

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.8.27
[✓] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: /Users/mdlama/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
      Deno version 2.3.1: OK
      Typst version 0.13.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.8.27
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
      Version: 2018

[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
      Using: Chrome found on system
      Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
      Source: MacOS known location

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.7.9
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 4.12.0
      Kernels: python3

(\) Checking Jupyter engine render....Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/quarto/share/jupyter/jupyter.py", line 20, in <module>
    from notebook import notebook_execute, RestartKernel
  File "/Applications/quarto/share/jupyter/notebook.py", line 15, in <module>
    from yaml import safe_load as parse_string
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml'
WARN: Error encountered when rendering files
[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[JessicaBolin]

I am also getting this error when trying to publish a Quarto book to Quarto pub.

OS: Mac Sonoma 14.5

quarto publish quarto-pub

ERROR: API Error: 429 - Too Many Requests

Stack trace:
    at QuartoPubClient.createSite (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:105681:23)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
    at async file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:104763:26
    at async withSpinner (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:76250:16)
    at async handlePublish (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:104760:9)
    at async publishSite (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:109371:38)
    at async publish7 (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:109590:61)
    at async doPublish (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:109550:13)
    at async publishAction (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:109582:13)
    at async Command.actionHandler (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:109538:9)

Output of quarto check

Quarto 1.5.55
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.55
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (external install)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: /Users/admin/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
      Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.7 (Conda)
      Path: /opt/anaconda3/bin/python
      Jupyter: 5.7.2
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.1
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.50
      rmarkdown: 2.29

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[mcanouil]

For now, what you can do is wait and retry later.

[mdlama]

Here's some more data: I've tried every day for the past 5 days with no luck. I also had the idea of creating a new account on Quarto Pub with a different email and trying to publish there, but I still get the same error.

[critmcdonald]

I'm having the same errors, as are all my students trying to publish new projects. Interestingly, I could republish and existing project that had be published to quarto.pub in the past.

[mcanouil]

Prefer reacting on the original message rather than posting a new message without no further details.

This being said, the team is aware of the issue.

[ryanlovett]

@mcanouil Is there a public service status page that we should track this at, since it seems that it isn't a quarto-cli issue. (other than maybe the error message needing to be reframed)

If not, could this be added to https://status.posit.co/ ?

[mcanouil]

Not that I'm aware of.

[phasewalk1]

Also getting this same error when running quarto publish using Quarto Pub as the provider

[mcanouil]

Important

For the future, please use reactions on original message rather than "same"-like messages which trigger loud notifications for everyone in the thread.
Thank you.

[cscheid]

(Please see #14035)