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Error: Request time should not be before the last token refill time #3132
Description
- Operating System version: Mac OS X Tahoe
- Firebase SDK version: "firebase-admin": "^13.8.0"
- Firebase Product: firestore
- Node.js version: 20.19.4
- NPM version: 10.8.2
[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem
a script that is calling recursiveDelete() is getting the following error
Stack: Error: Request time should not be before the last token refill time.
at RateLimiter.refillTokens (node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/build/src/rate-limiter.js:117:19)
at RateLimiter.tryMakeRequest (node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/build/src/rate-limiter.js:67:14)
at BulkWriter._sendBatch (node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/build/src/bulk-writer.js:753:50)
at /node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/build/src/bulk-writer.js:742:50
at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:60:5)
at process.processImmediate (node:internal/timers:454:9)
Activity
cherylEnkidu commentedon May 20, 2026
Hi @michaelAtCoalesce , could you please provide more details about the scenario in which this error message appears? For example, are you encountering it consistently, or is it more of a flaky/intermittent issue?
It would also be helpful if you could share a minimal reproducible example.