Error 429 Too Many Requests: What to Do When You've Been Rate Limited?by@corentin
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Error 429 Too Many Requests: What to Do When You've Been Rate Limited?

by Corentin4mMarch 4th, 2020
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The 429 (Too Many Requests) error is an HTTP status code that often occurs when you've hit a request limit of an API. Rate limiting is a protective feature of most consumable APIs. Bots, and any application that consistently polls an API, are the most likely to run into the error. GitHub's v3 REST API has a limit of 5000 requests per hour per authenticated user for authenticated requests, for unauthenticated requests, the limit is 60 requests an hour. If you have made too many requests, your application has been rate limited.

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