API rate limit error in using org.kohsuke.github.GHUserSearchBuilder

Question

My method looks so:

static void search() throws IOException {

    GitHub gitHub = GitHubBuilder
            .fromEnvironment()
            .withPassword(MyAuthData.LOGIN,MyAuthData.PASSWORD)
            .withRateLimitHandler(RateLimitHandler.WAIT)
            .build();

    GHUserSearchBuilder searchBuilder =   gitHub.searchUsers().language("Russian").location("Moscow");
    List<GHUser> users = searchBuilder.list().asList();
    for(GHUser user: users){
        System.out.println(user.getName()+" "+user.getEmail()+" "+user.getCompany());}
    System.out.println("Total: "+searchBuilder.list().getTotalCount());
}

And that is my log:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: java.io.IOException: {"message":"API rate limit exceeded for alexey-semenov.","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"}
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester$1.fetch(Requester.java:399)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester$1.hasNext(Requester.java:366)
    at org.kohsuke.github.PagedSearchIterable$1.hasNext(PagedSearchIterable.java:49)
    at org.kohsuke.github.PagedIterator.fetch(PagedIterator.java:44)
    at org.kohsuke.github.PagedIterator.hasNext(PagedIterator.java:32)
    at org.kohsuke.github.PagedIterable.asList(PagedIterable.java:21)
    at com.company.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:34)
    at com.company.Main.main(Main.java:9)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: {"message":"API rate limit exceeded for alexey-semenov.","documentation_url":"httpss://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"}
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.handleApiError(Requester.java:506)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester$1.fetch(Requester.java:395)
    ... 12 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: https://api.github.com/search/users?q=language%3ARussian+location%3AMoscow&page=31
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1890)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1885)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1884)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1457)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1441)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.parse(Requester.java:461)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.access$300(Requester.java:64)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester$1.fetch(Requester.java:390)
    ... 12 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: httpss://api.github.com/search/users?q=language%3ARussian+location%3AMoscow&page=31
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1840)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1441)
    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:480)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:338)
    at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.parse(Requester.java:457)
    ... 14 more

Who faced with something similar? How to do coorect authorization here?

Answer 1

You're authenticating correctly -- notice that the API replied with this message:

API rate limit exceeded for alexey-semenov

That means that authentication was successful (because your account was recognized), but you stepped over the rate limit which is 5000 reqs/hour (per user). If you hadn't authenticated correctly, the message would have been something like this:

API rate limit exceeded for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)