Question: secondary rate limits

Author: ritchie46Created Oct 15, 2021Updated Nov 4, 2024

Great project! It helped me a lot for one changelog generation.

Sadly, I keep hitting secondary rate limits. I've set up an authentication token, but that doesn't help. Any ideas?

Here are the logs:

bash
docker run -it --env-file .env --rm -v "$(pwd)":/usr/local/src/your-app githubchangeloggenerator/github-changelog-generator --no-issues --no-unreleased -u pola-rs -p polarsUsing these options:
:date_format=>"%Y-%m-%d"
:output=>"AUTO_CHANGELOG.md"
:base=>"py-polars/CHANGELOG.md"
:issues=>false
:add_issues_wo_labels=>true
:add_pr_wo_labels=>true
:pulls=>true
:filter_issues_by_milestone=>true
:issues_of_open_milestones=>true
:author=>true
:unreleased=>false
:unreleased_label=>"Unreleased"
:compare_link=>true
:exclude_labels=>["no-changelog", "question"]
:summary_labels=>["Release summary", "release-summary", "Summary", "summary"]
:breaking_labels=>["backwards-incompatible", "Backwards incompatible", "breaking"]
:enhancement_labels=>["enhancement", "Enhancement", "Type: Enhancement"]
:bug_labels=>["bug", "Bug", "Type: Bug"]
:deprecated_labels=>["deprecated", "Deprecated", "Type: Deprecated"]
:removed_labels=>["removed", "Removed", "Type: Removed"]
:security_labels=>["security", "Security", "Type: Security"]
:configure_sections=>{}
:add_sections=>"{\"features\":{\"prefix\":\"**Enhancements:**\",\"labels\":[\"enhancement\"]}, \"documentation\":{\"prefix\":\"**Documentation updates:**\",\"labels\":[\"documentation\"]}, \"testing\":{\"prefix\":\"**Testing updates:**\",\"labels\":[\"testing\"]}}"
:issue_line_labels=>[]
:max_issues=>nil
:simple_list=>false
:ssl_ca_file=>nil
:verbose=>true
:header=>"# Changelog"
:merge_prefix=>"**Merged pull requests:**"
:issue_prefix=>"**Closed issues:**"
:summary_prefix=>""
:breaking_prefix=>"**Breaking changes:**"
:enhancement_prefix=>"**Implemented enhancements:**"
:bug_prefix=>"**Fixed bugs:**"
:deprecated_prefix=>"**Deprecated:**"
:removed_prefix=>"**Removed:**"
:security_prefix=>"**Security fixes:**"
:http_cache=>true
:require=>[]
:config_file=>".github_changelog_generator"
:user=>"pola-rs"
:project=>"polars"
:since_tag=>"py-polars-v0.10.1"
:token=>"hidden value"

WARNING: `Faraday::Connection#authorization` is deprecated; it will be removed in version 2.0.
While initializing your connection, use `#request(:authorization, ...)` instead.
See https://lostisland.github.io/faraday/middleware/authentication for more usage info.
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Octokit::Forbidden: GET https://api.github.com/repos/pola-rs/polars/issues/181/events?per_page=100: 403 - You have exceeded a secondary rate limit. Please wait a few minutes before you try again. // See: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#secondary-rate-limits
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Source: github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator