Github Account Suspended (Excessive API usage)

[dsculptor]

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

• Would request soucebot team to put reasonable warnings e.g link to section H in the docs for using PATs.
• Suggest workarounds.
• Rate limiting / controls on pull frequency can be added as well.

Github Terms Section H

[brendan-kellam]

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