NotLoadingAPIFromGoogleMapsError even when loading correct URL

Question

I am getting the NotLoadingAPIFromGoogleMapsError error for some users even if the correct URL is being used: (pug syntax):

script(type='text/javascript' src='https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=MY_KEY&libraries=places')

It seems to be resulting from the Authentication API call generated from the script. Anyone else have this issue? How did you solve it?

Answer 1

Hopefully others will find this useful - I received an answer from Google as follows:

The API session token expires if someone leaves a map open for more than about 24 hours, so it's normal to see a low level of these errors. (This is the intended behavior)

There's no documentation about this anywhere - so hopefully this answer will help save people research time.

There might be a way to catch the error and re-authorize if it occurs. I'll update here if that's a possibility.

Answer 2

I had this issue for my site before and it was because of my service worker cache the google map API script. Once I unregistered my service worker the error stopped.