How to Get the Most out of GitHub API Rate Limits
Blog post from Endor Labs
Rate limiting on GitHub's API is a technique used to manage the performance and prevent system overload by controlling the number of requests a user can make. Unauthenticated users are limited to 60 requests per hour, while authenticated users can make up to 5000 requests per hour. Enterprise accounts have an increased limit of 15,000 requests per hour. Techniques to optimize the usage of these limits include increasing page size limits, using conditional requests with ETags, managing multiple GitHub accounts, and employing incremental ingestion strategies. Advanced methods such as utilizing GraphQL, token rotation, and GitHub App installations can further enhance data retrieval efficiency. Despite these strategies, users may still encounter rate limits and need to implement waiting strategies for resets. These techniques have been successfully implemented at Endor Labs to improve the speed of data fetching from GitHub, demonstrating significant performance enhancements while occasionally waiting for rate limits to refresh.
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