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API rate limit exceeded for IP
Hey I've got this error
API rate limit exceeded for IP 1xx.x.1x7.x5. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)
How to solve this?
Hi, I'm not the repo owner. Anyway, the GitHUb API utilized by the plugin has a rate limit. That means that if you hit reload several times in a row, the error will appear. give it a while and the error will disappear again. A potential solution would be to generate an authentication token for the API and supply that to the card, though I don't see the support in the plugin yet. Also, that would mean that you would blast a GitHub api key into the open world which would be against the GitHub terms and conditions.
Anyway, we need a solution for highly frequented sites. Any ideas?
Caching the stats seems like the best way around this, but I can't think of how to do that with only a simple JavaScript plugin.
Since the IP limit is by IP address, and the IP address is from the user viewing the cards, just save the data to a localStorage, and only request again to GH API after some day, I don't think that this must be updated in real time and I don't think that someone seeing the card really want to see information from the last minute for example
