Bug#955268: udd watch: "429 too many requests" from GitHub
On 24/04/20 at 16:07 +0200, Xavier wrote:
> Le 24/04/2020 à 15:57, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> Hi,
>
> Prefer to compile a 2.20.3~alpha of devscripts to avoid problems with
> Perl path (modified code is in /usr/share/perl5/Devscripts/Uscan/)
>
> To use it (with last changes:
> uscan --http-header=https://github.com@GitHubToken=value
>
> Token will be sent only to URL starting with https://github.com. Then
> this option can be set by default. Use --verbose to see what happens
Unfortunately I need to do a manual install anyway, I don't have root
access on the UDD machine and thus cannot install a .deb.
Lucas
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