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GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access (github.blog)

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An update from GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123#discussioncomment-13148279

The rates are here: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28

60 req/hour for unauthenticated users
5000 req/hour for authenticated - personal
15000 req/hour for authenticated - enterprise org

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[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 129 points 23 hours ago

Probably getting hammered by ai scrapers

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 85 points 21 hours ago

you mean, doin' what microsoft and their ai 'partners' do to others?

Also, as Microsoft appears to have recognized scraping for AI training as a problem, are you seizing your own scraping activities on public code and the larger web or is this a case of double standards?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

Yeah but they're allowed to do it because they have brazillions of dollars.

[-] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

They literally own GitHub. Brazillions well spent.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 15 hours ago

The funny thing is that rate limits won't help them with genai scrapers

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago

Everything seems to be. There was a period where you could kinda have a sane experience browsing over a VPN or otherwise using a cloud service IP range endpoint but especially the past 6 months or so things have gotten worse exponentially by the week. Everything is moving behind cloudflare or other systems

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