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Excavator - Handle GitHub API rate limiting

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, github-actions, powershell
Domain
api, ci-cd, devops

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Extras bucket run linked in the issue and the Excavator handling for GitHub API failures. Determine how the rate-limit response leads to the invalid URL error; done means rate-limited updates are handled without that failure and the affected run behavior is verified.

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Description

Seems Excavator does not handle GitHub API rate limiting very well. Here is a run from Extras bucket:

https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/actions/runs/18555159620/job/52890740764

Autoupdating appflowy
The remote server returned an error: (403) rate limit exceeded.
URL https://api.github.com/repos/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/releases is not valid
Dominant language
PowerShell
Stars
32
Forks
30
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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