Bug#955268: udd watch: "429 too many requests" from GitHub
On 24/04/20 at 15:06 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:49:33 +0200 Xavier <yadd@debian.org> wrote:
> > Le 30/03/2020 à 08:25, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> > > On 29/03/20 at 23:52 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:53:11PM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> > >>>>>> 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?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> not for now, but I can add this feature. Just to insert an additional
> > >>>> header ?
> > >>>
> > >>> This little diff adds --http-header option. To use it:
> > >>>
> > >>> uscan --http-header=Access-Token=qwertyuiop
> > >>>
> > >>> Sounds good for you ?
> > >
> > > Yes, thanks!
> >
> > Done: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/181
>
> since there is only little progress on that merge request, could we have an
> intermediate solution? For example by severely reducing the rate with which
> uscan is run on github.com? Even if this means that there is only a check done
> once a week, that's better than the current situation which already persists
> for over a month.
I think that a suitable workaround would be to have a local uscan copy
in UDD that can add the header, and then modify UDD to use it for
github.
Anybody with access to UDD can do it. If nobody does, I'll try to do it
when I run into Debian time, which is scarse those days.
Lucas
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