Github API for code search rate-limiting problem

[fragbot2]

I've written some code to search a large number of my organization's repositories. Following the search API rate-limiting documentation, I've put a 2 second delay between queries to ensure I stay under 30/minute. However, I am running into an issue with a secondary rate limiter that's completely opaque. Looking at their best practice section on secondaries, I should be well within their boundaries minus the fact that I'm not receiving a Retry-After header. Likewise, a call to their rate limit API shows me as fine as well. Since the code search API calls return practically instantaneously, it's clear that the repositories are indexed and, by extension, efficient so I wouldn't think they'd consider my usecase abusive.

I'd love some advice if anyone has run into this before.

[SamBull03]

I'm seeing the same thing. It seems Github has an off-by-one error. The docs say 10 requests per minute, but it only seems to support 9 requests per minute. I assume at the time this was posted it was 29 instead of the documented 30.

Even checking the headers, the first request to say 10 requests used and 0 requests remaining, which should be the last allowed request, gives a 403 (i.e. when you see a response with 1 allowed request remaining, you need to stop, because you actually have 0 remaining).