hold_until_rate_limit_success.py

# Check if hitting API rate-limiting
def hold_until_rate_limit_success():
  while True:
    response = requests.get(
      url="https://api.github.com/rate_limit",
      headers={
        "Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['GITHUB_TOKEN']}"
      }
    )

    if response.status_code != 200:
      print("Error fetching rate limit info")
      exit(1)

    rate_limit_info = response.json()
    remaining = rate_limit_info['rate']['remaining']

    if remaining < 100:
      print("ℹ️  We have less than 100 GitHub API rate-limit tokens left, sleeping for 1 minute and checking again")
      time.sleep(60)
    else:
      break