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> I still rate limited the hell out of it Merely for your consideration, they actually do a great job of indicating in the response how many more requests per
by mdaniel 3y ago
> I still rate limited the hell out of it
Merely for your consideration, they actually do a great job of indicating in the response how many more requests per "window" the current authentication is allowed, and a header containing the epoch at which time the window will reset: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28#rate-limit-headers https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/resources-in-the-re...
I would suspect, all things being equal, that politely spaced requests are better than "as fast as computers can go" but I was just trying to point out that one need not bend oppressively over the other direction when the site is kind enough to tell the caller about the boundaries in a machine-readable format
- that_guy_iain 3y agoThat's on the API. For what I wanted it was do various HTTP requests to the website and do git clones.