Github Account Suspended (Excessive API usage) #316
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Excessive PAT token usage can suspend your github account!One of my colleagues had her github account suspended. The most likely reason we think is because of excessive API usage via her PAT token in our sourcebot instance. Our self-hosted instance had 15+ public repos indexed (mainly AI SDKs). Although, github has not shared any details on the exact reasons for suspension; everything else about her account / activity had been normal since forever. 💡 Ideas
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Heya - sorry to hear. We have logic to respect GitHub's rate limiting policy (via the If you get details from GitHub, could you let us know? You can email me at Good callout on docs. I created a issue to track adding docs explaining how we respect code host rate limits: #317 |
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Heya - sorry to hear. We have logic to respect GitHub's rate limiting policy (via the
x-ratelimit-reset
header, docs), so I'm not exactly sure if SB is the cause or not. We have users running instances with a thousand+ GitHub repos that haven't hit this issue.If you get details from GitHub, could you let us know? You can email me at
brendan [at] sourcebot [dot] dev
Good callout on docs. I created a issue to track adding docs explaining how we respect code host rate limits: #317