Github API 速率限制细节

Question

I am trying to find some specific details on the Github API rate limit. I have seen many different places suggesting 5000 requests per hour, but I have been limited to 30 according to my response headers . I have looked at a couple other questions related to github rate limits but haven't found any specifics on them.

I authenticate my requests with OAUTH in the headers .

I recieve Error: Request failed with status code 403 which according to the docs means I'm authenticated.

What I would like to know is:

• What are the different rate limits?
• Why would I receive 30/hour while someone else may have 5000/hour?
• How do I increase it?

Answer 1

You are likely seeing a reduced rate limit because you are not successfully authenticating. You may be providing credentials, but those credentials are not correct, don't have the right scopes, or are otherwise not valid for the resources you're requesting. If you're accessing public information, then you'd get access to that data anyway even without authenticating, so your invalid credentials wouldn't matter but would result in a reduced rate limit.

The reason GitHub provides different rate limits for authenticated and unauthenticated users is to prevent abuse and make it possible to contact users who are engaging in excessive or unacceptable behaviors. For example, if a bot account or OAuth app is causing problems, the maintainer of that service can be contacted, and in an emergency, that account can be prevented from accessing the API until it can be fixed so as not to impact other users.

You can, as the documentation mentions, get an increased rate limit for the API by successfully authenticating. You haven't provided any details about what you're requesting or what scopes you've asked for, so we can't help there; you'll probably want to ask another question with more details. Beyond the limit of 5000 requests, you'd have to ask GitHub Support, although that is a relatively generous limit.