$ ruby g2h.rb https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app
#<URI::HTTPS:0x007ffa8c26c170 URL:https://api.github.com/repos/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/forks>
/Users/shrx/Downloads/branchesapp-master/lib/github.rb:26:in `forks': #<Net::HTTPForbidden 403 Forbidden readbody=true>{"message":"API rate limit exceeded for IP_ADDRESS. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"} (RuntimeError)
    from /Users/shrx/Downloads/branchesapp-master/lib/github.rb:58:in `fetch_all'
    from g2h.rb:99:in `<main>'

Is it possible to add authentication to raise the request limit?

This helps me find forks that has the changes I want (usually because the original repository went dormant or something)

This is very good and what I was looking for.

forks of the project will be fetched (and cached locally in a .json file).

(1) In many case, the user will actually have a local clone. There is no need to refetch a complete git clone of the forks from a github URL.
Some repositories are quite big, so the cost of fetching all might be high and should be avoided.

(2) Also, the local clone has a number of remotes already known (git remote -v show). Perhaps only one "origin" to their github fork, possible a selection of other github forks. The user may just want a view restricted to the forks listed by git remote -v show, not all the remotes known to github.

Technically, this would mean:

• (1) using the local directory as cache (instead of public/username/reponame)
• (2) an option to do git remote -v show and use only remote with URLs that look like github there, instead of fetching all remote names from github API.

There were several ideas here, I hope these writings are clear enough.

Maybe this could be ported to rugged?

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/internal/loose.rb:108:in unpack_object_header_gently': undefined method>>' for "x":String (NoMethodError)
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/internal/loose.rb:56:in get_raw_object' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/internal/loose.rb:32:in[]'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:84:in block in get_raw_object_by_sha1' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:83:ineach'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:83:in get_raw_object_by_sha1' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:334:inwalk_log'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:287:in log' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby/repository.rb:306:inrev_list'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:70:in block in rev_list' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:211:inblock in try_run'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/timeout.rb:66:in timeout' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:210:intry_run'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:70:in rev_list' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/commit.rb:120:infind_all'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/repo.rb:381:in commits' from /Volumes/Odo/Development/Projects/branchesapp/lib/gritnet.rb:29:inblock in parse!'
from /Volumes/Odo/Development/Projects/branchesapp/lib/gritnet.rb:28:in each' from /Volumes/Odo/Development/Projects/branchesapp/lib/gritnet.rb:28:ineach_with_index'
from /Volumes/Odo/Development/Projects/branchesapp/lib/gritnet.rb:28:in parse!' from g2h.rb:103:in

See mloughran/git-cleanup#10