Solved Out of GitHub API rate limit

[SmartFinn]

Hi,
after upgrade Release Bell to v1.7.0 I faced with GitHub API limit exceeded:

$ > date +%s
1622226172  # Fri, 28 May 2021 21:22:52 +0300
$ > curl -v -H "Authorization: token ${GITHUB_TOKEN}" https://api.github.com/
...
< x-ratelimit-limit: 5000
< x-ratelimit-remaining: 0
< x-ratelimit-reset: 1622229106  # Fri, 28 May 2021 22:11:46 +0300
< x-ratelimit-used: 5005
< x-ratelimit-resource: core
...

I have starred 177 repos of which only 130 have tags/releases
(see https://github.com/SmartFinn?tab=stars)

Is it possible to reduce API calls?

[girish]

@smartfinn Indeed, we have been seeing this in our installation as well. Debugging. It seems something related to the latest release 1.7.0.

[nebulon]

I've tried to fix it now, it is currently deployed to our internal instance to see how it behaves, before we make a package release.

[nebulon]

The latest package release now has a few fixes to workaround the rate-limits (5000 requests per hour):

• Remove unnecessary extra requests by using the local database better
• Randomize request order to eventually catch all releases if
• Less parallel requests
• Take rate-limit reset time into account when to retry

Hope this improves the situation.

[SmartFinn]

@nebulon thank you, the API calls are dramatically reduced.