Has someone gotten banned off GitHub from using Obtainium with a GitHub Account?

[Lokito23]

While it's ironic to ask it here, I have to ask if someone has gotten banned from their account because they used Obtainium.

[DarkCrypt]

No, not that I know of. Not sure why this would happen anyway.

[Lokito23]

No, not that I know of. Not sure why this would happen anyway.

I'm asking just in case too many rate limits bans your account (or something alike, e.g. Being put in a bot blacklist), though I guess it's not that much of a risk, but it's better to ask than to take a risk (however small the probability is).

[ImranR98]

Never heard of this happening to anyone.

[Lokito23]

Good to know.

[DarkCrypt]

I should of said this in my previous comment but I'll expand on it here for others to see as well.

As we already know, Obtainium works with GitHub by utilizing GitHub REST API requests. Of course there's rate limits, primary and secondary. There's also different rate limits for unauthenticated users and authenticated users (personal access token).

Primary Rate Limits

Unauthenticated users:

• 60 requests per hour
• Using Obtainium without a personal access token = exceed rate limits (depends on # of apps)
• Not recommended

Authenticated users:

• 5,000 requests per hour
• Using Obtainium with a personal access token = never exceed rate limits
• Recommended

I won't get into the secondary rate limits because nobody will ever exceed the primary.

If you'd like to learn more:
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28.