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Here is one more reason I use MacPorts, because it never does crap like this: $ brew search x11 x11vnc Error: GitHub API Error: API rate limit exceede
by eddieh 10y ago
Here is one more reason I use MacPorts, because it never does crap like this:
$ brew search x11
x11vnc
Error: GitHub API Error: API rate limit exceeded for 0.0.0.0. (But here's the good n ews: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)
Try again in 54 minutes 49 seconds, or create a personal access token:
https://github.com/settings/tokens
and then set it as HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN.
- theli0nheart 10y agoHow often are you querying GitHub's API from your local machine?
- sigzero 10y agoI've encountered that error too. Sometimes, I am just seeing if stuff I want to play with are out there in brew land.
- eddieh 10y agoI can answer that that precisely: 4. I was testing Homebrew in a virtual machine to see how it compared to MacPorts, Nix, and Pkgsrc at the time and can restore the virtual machine with Terminal still open and my complete session viewable. Sure the "fix" is simple. But when I'm evaluating something I'm possibly going to make part of my life, I have to ask myself: how many more surprises await me? Based on my evaluation of the available package managers, my ranking (for macOS) is: 1) MacPorts 2) Pkgsrc 3) Homebrew 4) Nix
- teilo 10y agoThis is not a Homebrew issue. This is a Github issue. The instructions regarding the API token solve the problem.