Bug#955268: udd watch: "429 too many requests" from GitHub
Hi,
On 29/03/20 at 00:28 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:00:51PM +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> > In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
> > https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/tags failed: 429 too many
> > requests
> >
> > Which packages have this error seems to vary over time, but it seems to be
> > common (~50-90% of GitHub upstreams - e.g. see https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-go-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org
> > but note that a dash can also mean "no debian/watch" or another error).
> >
> > I don't know if this was triggered by GitHub introducing/lowering their
> > limit, by a bug on our end making more requests than we intended to, or by
> > our generally increasing size. (Currently 9490 GitHub-hosted packages each
> > checked every 3 days
>
> IIRC with an access token the limit is 5000 queries per hour. Without a
> token, much, much less.
The UDD code calls uscan. Is there a way for uscan to use an access
token?
Lucas
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