403 Forbidden: API rate limit exceeded about eget HOT 13 CLOSED

GitHub has a rate limit for unauthenticated API requests: you can only make 60 per hour. I could add some authentication to eget which would allow you to raise this limit to 5000 per hour by providing a valid GitHub oauth token in the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. Currently the code implementing this is commented out in download.go due to being untested.

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Any news on this?

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I have pushed the update. Using GITHUB_TOKEN should now allow you to make more requests per hour.

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after installing new version, problem subsided for two days and repeating again.

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Have you set up a GitHub OAuth token? With the token you should not see this problem unless you are exceeding 5,000 requests per hour.

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I have also checked with wireshark to find out any requests are being made with github. there is no abnormal traffic to github.

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Does the problem occur every time you use eget, or only in certain circumstances?

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it occurs every time when using eget

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I have pushed an update with a possible fix and a new option --rate which will display rate limiting information (total and remaining allowed requests) to help you diagnose the issue further.

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thanks for the update.

it is now working without errors.

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I have the same problem with 0.3.0 - would you be able to make the fix available with a new release?

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Yes no problem, I will release 0.3.1 later today.

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eget uses now GITHUB_TOKEN. A side note: --rate seems mutually exclusive with all other options. Help for this option should make this explicit in my opinion.

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