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Retry-After header missing? #24760

May 11, 2021 · 3 comments · 2 replies
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Hi there @ewels 👋

Thanks so much for joining us and for sharing your experience. There is additional documentation that speaks to the lack of Retry-After header found here:

docs.github.com

Best practices for integrators - GitHub Docs

//docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/best-practices-for-integrators

Specifically:

  • Requests that create content which triggers notifications, such as issues, comments and pull requests, may be further limited and will not include a Retry-After header in the response. Please create this content at a reasonable pace to avoid further limiting.

The behavior you described in your OP:

If you hit the GitHub API with a lot of requests at once to make PRs etc

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