GitHub API limits and Composer
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Handle GitHub API rate limits.
The reason why you can run into this issue temporarily is that GitHub limits it's API per IP.
The solution is to create a GitHub OAuth token and put it in your composer.json file. You can do so by visiting https://github.com/settings/tokens or via terminal:
curl -u your-github-user -d '{"note": "Fortrabbit Auth"}' https://api.github.com/authorizations
bash
If you are using multi factor authentication (OTP), then you need to provide a valid OTP token like so:
curl -u your-github-user -H 'X-GitHub-OTP: 123456' -d '{"note": "Fortrabbit Auth"}' https://api.github.com/authorizations
bash
This will give you a response like the following:
{
"id": 123456,
"url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/123456",
"app": {
"name": "Fortrabbit Auth (API)",
"url": "http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#oauth-authorizations-api",
"client_id": "12345abc12345"
},
"token": "12345abc1234512345",
"note": "Fortrabbit Auth",
"note_url": null,
"created_at": "2013-08-08T11:08:18Z",
"updated_at": "2013-08-08T11:08:18Z",
"scopes": []
}
json
What you need is the token value. In the above example it is 12345abc1234512345. Open up your composer.json file and add the token under the config directive:
{
"require": {
"awesome/package": "@dev"
},
"config": {
"github-oauth": {
"github.com": "12345abc1234512345"
}
}
}
json
That's it. Your API token will be used to give you a personal rate limit which is much more higher than the default one.