Add support for Github auth token via environment variable
dgibbard-cisco opened this issue · comments
Introduction
Hoping I haven't missed this in the docs, but we're getting rate limited by Github, when running tflint --init which is trying to pull (for example) the AWS plugin.
Example Output:
Installing "aws" plugin...
Failed to install a plugin; Failed to fetch GitHub releases: GET https://api.github.com/repos/terraform-linters/tflint-ruleset-aws/releases/tags/v0.30.0: 403 API rate limit exceeded for 146.112.163.42. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.) [rate reset in 43m44s]
Proposal
add support for GITHUB_API_TOKEN or similar to allow users to provide authentication tokens for github to reduce impact of anonymous rate limiting.
Support is supported in the go-github module: in the WithAuthToken method: https://github.com/google/go-github#authentication
References
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