[Question] API rate limit exceeded

[KaKi87]

Hello,

API rate limit exceeded for user ID 21284089 (403)

I'm getting a lot of these lately, while I didn't used to in my first months using OctoDroid.

What changed ?

Thanks

[maniac103]

I don't think anything specific has changed ... at least I never saw that error in my own Octodroid usage. The docs say you have 5000 requests per hour shared among all apps you're logged into ... do you maybe use more than one app that uses a GH token for your account?

[KaKi87]

I've just discovered that OctoDroid make a lot of these requests

[maniac103]

Interesting. I assume you have notifications enabled? If so, this almost feels like the notifications worker is retriggered over and over again.
Can you reproduce this at will? If so, I assume the issue goes away when disabling notifications?

[KaKi87]

You guessed everything right.

[maniac103]

OK, in that case I'll double check the notifications code and maybe add some debug logging. Would you be willing to test drive a build with more debug output?

[KaKi87]

Yes, preferably built as an APK and outputting logs in a local file. Thanks

[KaKi87]

So you fixed it anyway ? ^^
Did you found out why it only happened to me ?
When will the fix be released in Google Play ?

[maniac103]

Did you found out why it only happened to me ?

I have no idea why you had that many workers running, but when adding debug logging I found that I also had 4 or 5 running simultaneously.

When will the fix be released in Google Play ?

In the next 1 or 2 weeks, I want to test drive the new code for check run support for a few days.

[mqus]

I'm not entirely sure because I did not check the logs but I think this bug took up most of my mobile data volume eventhough I was barely outside last month. Now after I applied the update I also noticed that my battery also lasts twice to thrice as long as before, probably due to the frequent waking.
All I want to say is thank you! You postponed my decision to buy a new phone at least a year :D

[KaKi87]

I'd believe you regarding baterry because loops and requests do take energy, however, they're just API calls so they only contain text, they're lightweight. What's your data plan size?

[mqus]

It took up about 750mb of mostly backgrounddata over at most 24(?) hours in total, stretched over a month. I know it's ridiculous. I even set the sync interval to an hour but it didn't have an effect. But as written, I think those are solved now. I now also prevented octodroid from using background data during outside activities to prevent something like this from happening again.

[KaKi87]

Alright 🙂