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secondary ratelimit reached??? After two simple text searches? Huh? #141073
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There is a few of us getting the same. |
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I used the searchbox 2x in one evening to get the rate limit warning: Whoa there! |
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Whoa there! Failing right on the second page of search result: See also: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/141770#discussioncomment-11070800 ---- One way in particular prodigal about the bandwidth usage: Why such TH-Hub practice? |
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Duplicate of: |
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I got rate limited after 1 search. Just immediately “You have exceeded a secondary rate limit” |
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il also got it on my phone whithout using any API, simple search on mobile website. not sure it relating to API error. |
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Simply everything wrong: |
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Also seeing this when doing a single search via the web UI from the github front page. I literally cannot search for anything because the site is rate limiting me. |
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Does this happen when you are logged in? See github.com top search bar - currently seeing rate limit issues |
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Same. Idk what's happening. |
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Getting this on my phone after clicking on one of the languages in my repo's language analysis tab... |
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Same here, doing litterally a five chacracter search. |
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Same thing here, just going to the GitHub homepage and searching for my repo triggers it. |
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I find even i can't get a tool to do something reasonable-- i just stop using that tool. That's likely what I'll do in this case. -RobOn Oct 13, 2024, at 2:24 PM, Valentino Spirito ***@***.***> wrote:
Hey Rob,
The "secondary rate limit" is GitHub's way to protect against excessive use beyond normal rate limits—especially when multiple requests put a high load on their infrastructure. It's less about quantity and more about frequency and potential impact. Even a couple of rapid searches can trigger it, depending on overall server load or other concurrent requests.
You might want to space out your API calls a bit more or use caching where possible to avoid this limit.
Hope this helps!
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+1. Same problem from a simple ASCII search. Oddly enough, I've only been having this problem on Librewolf (Firefox fork without the telemetry) and not Firefox itself. So it could be correlated to certain browser privacy settings. |
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Logged-in vs. no login, supposedly. |
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Also hitting the rate limit. The only thing I did was navigate to github's home page, then try to search for something using the search bar. As far as I can tell, I don't have any erroneous calls being done on my end unless github itself is doing extra calls without my knowledge. |
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This has to be a bug. I wasn't even logged in and I get this message on the first search from the Web UI. I also deactivated my VPN so I'm coming from a different IP, not being logged in, and I get this message. Logged in I get the message. About the only way I can navigate to a repo any more is to click a link directly to it or manually enter the URL if I happen to know it. |
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You can aslo google ' REPONAME github repo' and find it |
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Also getting this on my phone. iOS, Safari. Just trying to view the commit history for a repo. Doesn't matter if it's via 5G, or WiFi. |
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The same. Front page, first search, no VPN, no login and getting the rate limit error. If I login it works but this is absolutely not feasible for me. |
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I assume I got the error because was not logged in and I share my IPv4 address with other users. github.com doesn't have an IPv6, and I don't get my own IPv4 address from my ISP provider, so I share the IP address with god knows how many other users, which could also make requests to github.com, and these would count together to the same rate limit. It would be probably the same case when access github.com over your mobile connection. |
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Apparently it does not necessarily depend on an IP addresses being shared: I ran into this issue with a static address. |
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My IP address is also not shared |
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Authenticated or not authenticated, this happens. It has happened so many times for me that I often forget what I was looking for. Quite annoying; I hope this gets fixed very soon. |
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Maybe someone is interested into reading this: I opened an official Github support ticket 2 days ago. All answers I got were first to read the guideline and after I insisted to be an issue their plan to investigate into this and that they are going to close the ticket in the meantime. 
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Holy sxxt ! |
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Github was the one thing microsoft hadnt screwed over after they bought it. Well there goes their streak :( |
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FWIW, they have disabled code search within a repository for unauthenticated users previously, and worsened the search for authenticated users, placed a laggy animated globe on the main page, rebranded as "AI-powered developer platform". I forgot whether emoji reactions were introduced before or after the sale though, and I think some of the other aspects of "enshittification" started before (e.g., #fragment links to Markdown file headings ceased to work without JS), so this rate limit can be viewed as just one out of many steps. |
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I don't want it to turn into a hounding, but it indeed be a good idea if some other people would open a ticket too - a polite and descriptive one! If they will get confirmed that this matter concerns enough people and seeing the cause to be not affiliated with something within our influence, it might definitely increase their ability/ambition. One thing is obvious: Talking in this chat does not arise the (sufficient) attention from Github (problem exists several months now) - if we want to have this problem solved, we have to get in touch with them directly! |
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The other issue still not fixed since 3 years: |
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I know from Microsoft that they become active only if the amount of complaints exceed a certain point - that applies for Windows OS, mabe its the same with Github. |
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Im gonna write a ticket |
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Ever since Mickeysoft took over, github is getting worse and worse. M$ should just fade away into obscurity. |
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Only explanation is GitHub is run by people that hate you :) |
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It also could be that they have more important things to work on, like fixing vulnerabilities or something along those lines... |
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Today I got an encouraging reply from support (I told you I created an official ticket):
For myself it works now, I can search Github. But I don't want to be selfish, so I ask you: Do you can perform Github searches now when not being logged in without (or at least with less) error messages? |
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For myself it work. But I don't want to be selfish, so I ask you: Do you can perform Github searches now when
not being logged in without (or at least with less) error messages?
(I will tell the support our average result then.)
It did work fine for me now.
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Glad to hear, so its two of us now (from about several millions people) |
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Working for me as well. Thank you for your effort. |
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Still broken for me. If I'm not logged in I can't do a search. (Safari, MacOS 14.6.1) |
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Probably IP related? ---- Try clean the cookies etc. whatsoever. |
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There is only one way to verify that: Please try using VPN (not Tor browser as it will most probably get blocked) to make sure about that. |
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Working for me now, thanks! |
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Works for me now |
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working for me without being signed in! thanks for getting results @Dragodraki |
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Yeah, not fixed. It happened on my phone this morning.
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working for me without being signed in! thanks for getting results
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"Whoa there!
You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.
Please wait a few minutes before you try again;
in some cases this may take up to an hour."
I received this msg after performing two simple searches for "1821" in the SONiC (NOS) repo -- what is a secondary rate limit?
Yeesh!
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/best-practices-for-using-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28#dealing-with-secondary-rate-limits
From TWO simple ASCII searches... C'mon!
-Rob
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