Getting rate limited when trying to collect PR data for issue-metrics

[Peter Laurens]

I'm trying to implement the github/issue-metrics@v2 action, my main desire is to collect data on time-to-first-comment/review on Pull Requests in my repository, which this tool seems to support.

However I am getting an API rate exceeded error, when trying to use it across a window of only a couple of days content:

github3.exceptions.ForbiddenError: 403 API rate limit exceeded for installation ID 8026696. If you reach out to GitHub Support for help, please include the request ID FC00:1733:4E64548:A17BDA6:65A1A825.

The full yml is very simple for now, and looks like this:

name: PR Metrics Test
on: push

permissions:
  pull-requests: read

jobs:
  build:
    name: pr metrics
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Run issue-metrics tool
      uses: github/issue-metrics@v2
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        SEARCH_QUERY: 'repo:<OrgHere>/<RepoHere> is:pr created:2023-05-01..2023-05-02'

... you can see I just selected a single day, but still get rate limited (it appears, at least).

I don't know what queries the tool is running under the hood though. Is this expected? The repository is not typically hugely busy, I would expect only a handful of PRs per day max.

Thanks for any guidance!

[Zack Koppert]

Once you've been rate limited once, it lasts for a while so that's what I expect is happening here. Have you tried running this since? Still an issue?

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[Zack Koppert]

Moving to a feature request issue #217