Is there a way to increase the API Rate limit or to bypass it altogether for GitHub?

Question

I am developing a web application which needs to send a lot of HTTP requests to GitHub. After n number of successful requests, I get HTTP 403: Forbidden with the me

Answer 1

In order to increase the API rate limit you might

• authenticate yourself at Github via your OAuth2 token or

• use a key/secret to increase the unauthenticated rate limit.

There are multiple ways of doing this:

Basic Auth + OAuth2Token

curl -u :x-oauth-basic https://api.github.com/user

Set and Send OAuth2Token in Header

curl -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" https://api.github.com

Set and Send OAuth2Token as URL Parameter

curl https://api.github.com/?access_token=OAUTH-TOKEN

Set Key & Secret for Server-2-Server communication

curl 'https://api.github.com/users/whatever?client_id=xxxx&client_secret=yyyy'