Generating new theme causes Throttled GraphQL API error

[Jay-Plumb]

Please confirm that you have:

• Searched existing issues to see if your issue is a duplicate. (If you’ve found a duplicate issue, feel free to add additional information in a comment on it.)
• Reproduced the issue in the latest CLI version.

In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?

Theme

Expected behavior

Currently unable to push a new theme:

shopify theme push -u --store STORE_NAME

Actual behavior

Theme should be created within /themes on the shopify store

Verbose output

                                                                         │

│ │
│ The Admin GraphQL API responded unsuccessfully with errors: │
│ │
│ [ │
│ { │
│ "message": "Throttled", │
│ "locations": [ │
│ { │
│ "line": 2, │
│ "column": 3 │
│ } │
│ ], │
│ "path": [ │
│ "themeFilesUpsert" │
│ ], │
│ "extensions": { │
│ "code": "THROTTLED", │
│ "requestId": "99714e41-9120-453f-877e-cbe5afe137c1-1760589566" │
│ } │
│ } │
│ ] │
│ │
│ Request ID: 99714e41-9120-453f-877e-cbe5afe137c1-1760589566

Reproduction steps

1. shopify theme push -u --store STORE_NAME
2. No throttling error
3. Preview theme successfully generated on the store

Operating System

MacOS 15.6.1 (24G90)

Shopify CLI version (shopify --version)

3.85.5

Shell

No response

Node version (run node -v if you're not sure)

v20.10

What language and version are you using in your application?

No response

[trwww]

I'm not a Shopify maintainer, but I just did a pretty deep dive on themeFilesUpsert calls failing for me too and above is a PR that got stuff going for me.

[graygilmore]

Hey @Jay-Plumb, while I'm looking at some logs for this I noticed that there were quite a few requests all at the same time. Is this a particularly large theme?

[Jay-Plumb]

Hey @graygilmore, I'm not sure what would be considered a large theme or not but our codebase would create a theme via our CLI on an older cli version in 40 seconds - 1 minute. I guess you could say the theme is on the slighly larger side. When running the push command locally it will get to 20% in a couple of seconds though and then error out.

[Jay-Plumb]

@graygilmore Interestingly another developer at our company, using the latest shopify-cli version as me, does not hit into the throttle issue when pushing the same theme/branch. Perhaps my Shopify partner account has been flagged?

I am able to push other repos that we have (with much larger files) without issue.

Also, I have seen the throttle message when running npm run dev for local development but trying after a couple of minutes causes the issue to stop. I still face the same issue when manually pushing the theme to development the production store.

[graygilmore]

👋🏻 @Jay-Plumb! We've done a little more digging and it looks like over a small three hour window you tried to upload ~1.3 million files which triggered the throttling. Looking at what some of the requests were it seems like a lot were minified (e.g. assets/pxl-global.<hash>.min.js) and could be caused by some kind of build process that you have for your theme. Unfortunately in this case the throttling is working as expected and you'll want to double check your tooling.

Might be good to double check your tooling to make sure it's not looping on itself during theme dev, too.

[Jay-Plumb]

@graygilmore Thanks for the above. I'll take a look at the build that we have but in the meantime could you tell me the time in which ~1.3 million files were uploaded? Also, it's been over 4 days now and i'm still unable to get past the throttle error message. How long do I have to wait until I am able to manually push themes again?

[graygilmore]

It would be difficult for me to try to loop through them all but spot checking was a lot of files that looked like the above (assets/pxl-global.<hash>.min.js). Here's an example of one of the batches:

"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.62kgxbqF.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6F_yWfoC.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6Ohs1eB9.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6JUa19h-.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6Ohs1eB9.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6WOawwQI.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6Z_sYZrY.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6WOawwQI.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6Z_sYZrY.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6bM4B4GH.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6_b_2pyc.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6_b_2pyc.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6bM4B4GH.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6mXCrMRN.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6fNQW5-4.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6fNQW5-4.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.7136zEZu.min.js"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6u7pCVFd.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.6mXCrMRN.min.js.map"
"assets/pxl-horizontal-scroll-carousel.74-OnUqt.min.js"

How long do I have to wait until I am able to manually push themes again?

I'm not seeing any throttling for shop you mentioned the first time. Do you have another request ID?

[Jay-Plumb]

Hey @graygilmore, it's no longer possible for me to develop locally. The request ID is 23276425-411c-4dc7-a81a-0cb620005854-1762131597

Note that I have not worked on the project for the last three weeks and I am still on 3.85.5