How many github tokens needed to not be throtelled?

[marcelo321]

Hello,

I just wanted to know how many github tokens we need so we don't get rate-limited. Each token should have 5k requests and I assume shhgit iterates this tokens to not get rate-limited?

[eth0izzle]

Hey @marcelo321 it's a good question. You should be fine with one token using the defaults. Shhgit uses 1 token for the /events API hit every 30 seconds. It then hits the API again for each repository it needs to process to lookup the organisation, stargazers count, and repository size. ~40 - 60% of events are usually processed so you could estimate ~51 tokens every minute or ~3060/hour.