GitHub rate limiting issues

We use the repo tool to do bulk operations on 140+ repositories. Because GitHub has rate limits, we start hitting them after only a few repo commands. Errors look something like this:

Error when processing PRs: cannot list open PRs: Error: Request failed with status code 403

[chanseokoh]

I stopped using the repo tool in favor of the “J-Team Control Center” sheet that @meltsufin created.

[bcoe]

When running many requests in paralel, I’ve verified that people are bumping into an additional rate limit with GitHub (It does not have to do with your hourly quota, seems to be spam detection on GitHub’s part).

To address this problem, there are various dials and knobs you can turn in the library now, try:

NODE_DEBUG=repo repo [command] --delay=1000 --concurrency=2 --retry --title='.*some title.*'

This will only allow two connections in conjunction, and will add a 1s delay. It will also retry failed requests.