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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: ---- 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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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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Working for me now on Incog. |
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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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You're welcome! Glad, if I could help. |
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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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They didn't disabled whole protection, so maybe it's only a bad coincidence with your IP address. |
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Does it work for you by changing the IP or deleting the cookies and reload? |
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So far we have all positive feedback but one. To make sure I'll wait some days more. @everyone: |
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Also for me it works now, thank you so much! It's just interesting: After logging out, deleting github cookies and getting a new IP the very first search results in a ratelimit reached error. Simply refreshing the page solves it and following searches also work. |
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Yes, thats the usual way Github handle requests. Deleting cookies makes Github confused because its the way an hacker would act too and seeing the same IP, Github realize you are the same anyway. It appears also if the IP adress you got had raised suspicion in the past. |
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Except for one unverified answer it works now for all people answered here. |
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Hi, unfortunately I ran into this exact problem just now. |
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I ran into this just now. Haven't used GitHub for a few months and when I did..it showed me this message. Nothing GitHub related operation running in background too. |
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I just played around with this for a bit. It seems to specifically be a problem with Safari. Searching for the word "test": |
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I had this problem on Firefox on Windows. After a refresh it worked, then went back to the same problem a two or three searches later. |
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Would refreshing again outright make it work..? |
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The first time I had the issue was the first search I made after not using GitHub search in over a week. After going back to the GitHub homepage and trying again it worked (then stopped working again after refining the search a couple of times.) After logging in, it worked normally. After logging back out, my first search showed the rate limit screen. Hard refreshing did nothing. Going back to the GitHub main page and running the same search again (within 1 minute) worked. This was done without a VPN, from Firefox on Windows, on a home internet connection. No one else uses GitHub from my IP address. |
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Check this post: Web UI shall be essentially the same. (mostly; but probably of some difference) Keep in mind that the IP allocation details are ISP specific: |
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Just had this issue today. |
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Had this issue today as well. Cannot do more than search request (linux, firefox via mobile data). |
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Same here. immediately blocked after click searching.. |
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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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