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## homebrew-github-api-token.md

      
        
          
            
              
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              December 21, 2015 05:38
                — forked from christopheranderton/homebrew-github-api-token.md
            
              
                Set your Github API Token If you hit a ”GitHub API rate limit exceeded” when searching with Homebrew (http://brew.sh/). 
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Description

When using Homebrew (http://brew.sh) and searching formulas or pull requests you may get the dreaded error message: Github API Rate limit exceeded
Let's fix that! (yeah!)

Short version

Create a new Personal Token in your Github Account Settings (Sidebar: Applications) and then copy the Token.
In the Terminal, use export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=YOURAPITOKENWITHFUNKYNUMBERSHERE (change that to your API Token) or add that to your .bash_profile and then do source .bash_profile.