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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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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Or just make authenticated requests. I'd expect that to be well within with capabilities of anyone using MELPA, and 5000 requests per hour shouldn't pose any difficulty considering MELPA only has about 6000 total packages.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

This is my opinion on it, too. Everyone is crying about the death of Github when they're just cutting back on unauthenticated requests to curb abuse... lol seems pretty standard practice to me.

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