GitHub API rate limit exceeded

Thanks for this awesome plugin! I have used it many times without any issues but ran into a rate limit issue…

This is most likely the same issue as #122, but restarting it did not fix it. The error message is pretty confusing because I most likely ran into the rate limit error by re-trying the download after receiving a The credentials are invalid, or the token does not have permissions error popup.

Is there anyway to make an authenticated request to use the higher rate limit? Not sure what kind of requests are going on- I haven’t looked into the code.

My config:

{
    "access_token": "...",
    "gist_id": "..."
}

Error log:

WARNING:Sync Settings.sync_settings.libs.logger:{'message': "API rate limit exceeded for <IP ADDRESS>. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)", 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting'}
ERROR:Sync Settings.sync_settings.libs.logger:The credentials are invalid, or the token does not have permissions
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Sync Settings.sublime-package/sync_settings/commands/download.py", line 45, in download
    ).get(settings.get('gist_id'))
  File "~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Sync Settings.sublime-package/sync_settings/libs/gist.py", line 46, in with_gid_wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Sync Settings.sublime-package/sync_settings/libs/gist.py", line 83, in get
    return self.__do_request('get', self.make_uri(gid)).json()
  File "~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/Sync Settings.sublime-package/sync_settings/libs/gist.py", line 100, in __do_request
    raise AuthenticationError('The credentials are invalid, or the token does not have permissions')
Sync Settings.sync_settings.libs.gist.AuthenticationError: The credentials are invalid, or the token does not have permissions

[mwilliammyers]

I am positive it is defined. Well at least my config looks like:

{
    "access_token": "copy and pasted from my GitHub settings",
    "gist_id": "copy and pasted from the gist's URL"
}

I am definitely getting a rate limit warning:

WARNING:Sync Settings.sync_settings.libs.logger:{'message': "API rate limit exceeded for <IP ADDRESS>. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)", 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting'}

And I know that is the issue causing the The credentials are invalid, or the token does not have permissions popup because I waited a while and without changing anything it worked…

I think we should at the very least signal this to the user in the popup or display the error message returned from GitHub instead of the generic The credentials are invalid... for all GitHub API errors.

[mfuentesg]

Thanks William